| Abstract: | Traveling waves in a viscous liquid flowing down an inclined plane can be described at small and moderate Reynolds numbers by an ordinary differential equation in the thickness of the layer [1, 2]. As the Reynolds number tends to zero, this equation goes over into an equation of third order with quadratic nonlinearity [3]. Periodic solutions of this last equation bifurcating from the plane-parallel solution have been investigated by Nepomnyashchii and Tsvelodub [3–6]. In the present paper, a study is made of the bifurcation of periodic solutions from periodic solutions, namely, an investigation is made of the values of the wave number for which a periodic solution is not unique; a bifurcation equation is derived, the number of bifurcating solutions is found, and their behavior near a bifurcation point is considered; and the bifurcating solutions are continued numerically with respect to a parameter (the wave number) from the neighborhoods of the bifurcation points. |
