A proof of the Benjamin-Feir instability |
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Authors: | Thomas J Bridges Alexander Mielke |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey, GU2 5XH Guildford, Surrey, Great Britain;(2) Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Universit↦ Hannover, Welfengarten 1, D-30167 Hannover, Germany |
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Abstract: | The existence and linear stability problem for the Stokes periodic wavetrain on fluids of finite depth is formulated in terms
of the spatial and temporal Hamiltonian structure of the water-wave problem. A proof, within the Hamiltonian framework, of
instability of the Stokes periodic wavetrain is presented. A Hamiltonian center-manifold analysis reduces the linear stability
problem to an ordinary differential eigenvalue problem on ℝ4. A projection of the reduced stability problem onto the tangent space of the 2-manifold of periodic Stokes waves is used
to prove the existence of a dispersion relation Λ(λ,σ, I
1, I
2)=0 where λ ε ℂ is the stability exponent for the Stokes wave with amplitude I
1 and mass flux I
2 and σ is the “sideband’ or spatial exponent. A rigorous analysis of the dispersion relation proves the result, first discovered
in the 1960's, that the Stokes gravity wavetrain of sufficiently small amplitude is unstable for F ε (0,F0) where F
0 ≈ 0.8 and F is the Froude number. |
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