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Boussinesq-type wave equations involve nonlinearities and dispersion. In this paper a Boussinesq-type equation with amplitude-dependent nonlinearities is presented. Such a model was proposed by Heimburg and Jackson (2005) for describing…

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We prove wave breaking --- bounded solutions with unbounded derivatives --- in the nonlinear nonlocal equations which combine the dispersion relation of water waves and the nonlinear shallow water equations, and which generalize the Whitham…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Lizheng Tao

We consider the stability of periodic gravity free-surface water waves traveling downstream at a constant speed over a shear flow of finite depth. In case the free surface is flat, a sharp criterion of linear instability is established for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-11-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Zhiwu Lin

The Whitham equation is a model for the evolution of surface waves on shallow water that combines the unidirectional linear dispersion relation of the Euler equations with a weakly nonlinear approximation based on the KdV equation. We show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 John D. Carter , Marc Francius , Christian Kharif , Henrik Kalisch , Malek Abid

In this paper we apply the approach of formal asymptotic expansions and perturbation theory to derive a new highly nonlinear shallow-water model from the full governing equations for two dimensional incompressible fluid with constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Yu Liu , Xingxing Liu , Min Li

We investigate the spectral instability of a $2\pi/\kappa$ periodic Stokes wave of sufficiently small amplitude, traveling in water of unit depth, under gravity. Numerical evidence suggests instability whenever the unperturbed wave is…

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This paper is concerned with the stability of periodic wave trains in a generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinski (gKS) equation. This equation is useful to describe the weak instability of low frequency perturbations for thin film flows down an…

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In the present Letter we use the Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of the Navier-Stokes equation for a two-phase flow (water and air) to study the dynamics of the modulational instability of free surface waves and its contribution to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Iafrati , A. Babanin , M. Onorato

We consider the space-time evolution of initial discontinuities of depth and flow velocity for an integrable version of the shallow water Boussinesq system introduced by Kaup. We focus on a specific version of this "Kaup-Boussinesq model"…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-08-25 T. Congy , S. K. Ivanov , A. M. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

We examine the linear stability of a shear flow driven by wind stress at the free surface and rotation at the lower boundary, mimicking oceanic flows influenced by surface winds and rotation of Earth. The linearised eigenvalue problem is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 S. Preethi , Ankush Kamboj , Ramkarn Patne , P. A. L. Narayana , Kirti Chandra Sahu

In the linear approximation, we study a one-dimensional problem of the reflectionless wave propagation on a surface of a shallow duct with the spatially varying water depth, duct width, and current. We show that both global and bounded…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-08 Semyon Churilov , Yury Stepanyants

For Stokes waves in finite depth within the neighbourhood of the Benjamin-Feir stability transition, there are two families of periodic waves, one modulationally unstable and the other stable. In this paper we show that these two families…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-24 Daniel J. Ratliff , Olga Trichtchenko , Thomas J. Bridges

We study the waves at the interface between two thin horizontal layers of immiscible fluids subject to high-frequency horizontal vibrations. Previously, the variational principle for energy functional, which can be adopted for treatment of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-22 Denis S. Goldobin , Anastasiya V. Pimenova , Kseniya V. Kovalevskaya , Dmitry V. Lyubimov , Tatyana P. Lyubimova

Various approaches to studying the stability of solutions of nonlinear PDEs lead to explicit formulae determining the stability or instability of the wave for a wide range of classes of equations. However, these are typically specialized to…

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We present an investigation of the modulational instability of partially coherent signals in electrical transmission lines. Starting from the modified Ginzburg-Landau equations and the Wigner-Moyal representation, we derive a nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla

We study the nonlinear interactions of waves with a doubled-peaked power spectrum in shallow water. The starting point is the prototypical equation for nonlinear uni-directional waves in shallow water, i.e. the Korteweg de Vries equation.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Onorato , D. Ambrosi , A. R. Osborne , M. Serio

In this paper, we investigate the well-posedness of a nonlinear dispersive model with variable coefficients that describes the evolution of surface waves propagating through a one-dimensional shallow water channel of finite length with…

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We study bidirectional one-dimensional (1-D) shallow-water waves within a class of Boussinesq equations, including the integrable Kaup-Boussinesq (KB) equation and a truncated-dispersion variant, which serves as a representative…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-30 Ashleigh Simonis , Sergey Nazarenko , Jalal Shatah , Yulin Pan

In this paper, we study the nonlinear modulational instability of two-dimensional hydroelastic Stokes waves in infinite depth. We first justify a focusing cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) approximation result for 2D deep hydroelastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Lizhe Wan , Jiaqi Yang

In this work, modulation of periodic interfacial waves on a conduit of viscous liquid is explored utilizing Whitham theory and Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) theory. Large amplitude periodic wave modulation theory does not require…

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