Modulational instability in the Whitham equation with surface tension and vorticity

DOI10.1016/j.na.2015.08.019zbMath1330.35329arXiv1506.07560OpenAlexW2962822343MaRDI QIDQ893301

Mathew A. Johnson, Vera Mikyoung Hur

Publication date: 13 November 2015

Published in: Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07560

zbMATH Keywords

surface tensionwater wavesmodulational instabilityconstant vorticityWhitham equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Traveling wave solutions (35C07)

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