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High-Frequency Instabilities of a Boussinesq-Whitham System: A Perturbative Approach

Analysis of PDEs 2021-02-11 v1

Abstract

We analyze the spectral stability of small-amplitude, periodic, traveling-wave solutions of a Boussinesq-Whitham system. These solutions are shown numerically to exhibit high-frequency instabilities when subject to bounded perturbations on the real line. We use a formal perturbation method to estimate the asymptotic behavior of these instabilities in the small-amplitude regime. We compare these asymptotic results with direct numerical computations. This is the second paper in a series of three that investigates high-frequency instabilities of Stokes waves.

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@article{arxiv.2102.05078,
  title  = {High-Frequency Instabilities of a Boussinesq-Whitham System: A Perturbative Approach},
  author = {Ryan Creedon and Bernard Deconinck and Olga Trichtchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.05078},
  year   = {2021}
}

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22 pages, 10 figures