Stability of traveling wave solutions to the Whitham equation

DOI10.1016/j.physleta.2014.04.067zbMath1331.35310OpenAlexW2098558238MaRDI QIDQ5964304

Henrik Kalisch, John D. Carter, Nathan Sanford, Keri Kodama

Publication date: 29 February 2016

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2014.04.067

zbMATH Keywords

dispersionwater wavesmodulational instabilityFourier-Floquet-Hill methodKdVWhitham

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) Traveling wave solutions (35C07)

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