Stability of oscillatory gravity wave trains with energy dissipation and Benjamin-Feir instability
Stability of oscillatory gravity wave trains with energy dissipation and Benjamin-Feir instability
The Benjamin-Feir instability describes the instability of a uniform oscillatory wave train in an irrotational flow subject to small perturbation of wave number, amplitude and frequency. Their instability analysis is based on the perturbation around the second order Stokes wave which satisfies the dynamic and kinematic free-surface boundary conditions up to the second order. In the same irrotational flow and perturbation framework of the Benjamin-Feir analysis, the perturbation in the present paper is around a nonlinear oscillatory
wave train which solves exactly the dynamic free-surface boundary condition
and satisfies the kinematic free-surface boundary condition up to the third or-
der. It is shown that the nonlinear oscillatory wave train is stable with respect
to the perturbation when the irrotational flow involves small Rayleigh energy
dissipation.
Chen, Zhi-Min
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Wilson, P.A.
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1 October 2012
Chen, Zhi-Min
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Wilson, P.A.
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Chen, Zhi-Min and Wilson, P.A.
(2012)
Stability of oscillatory gravity wave trains with energy dissipation and Benjamin-Feir instability.
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B, 17 (7).
(doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.2329).
Abstract
The Benjamin-Feir instability describes the instability of a uniform oscillatory wave train in an irrotational flow subject to small perturbation of wave number, amplitude and frequency. Their instability analysis is based on the perturbation around the second order Stokes wave which satisfies the dynamic and kinematic free-surface boundary conditions up to the second order. In the same irrotational flow and perturbation framework of the Benjamin-Feir analysis, the perturbation in the present paper is around a nonlinear oscillatory
wave train which solves exactly the dynamic free-surface boundary condition
and satisfies the kinematic free-surface boundary condition up to the third or-
der. It is shown that the nonlinear oscillatory wave train is stable with respect
to the perturbation when the irrotational flow involves small Rayleigh energy
dissipation.
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Accepted/In Press date: 29 March 2012
Published date: 1 October 2012
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/336575
ISSN: 1531-3492
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