Investigation of the maximum amplitude increase from the Benjamin-Feir instability

Details Investigation of the maximum amplitude increase from the Benjamin-Feir instability Investigation of the maximum amplitude increase from the Benjamin-Feir instability

2011-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/1110.4686v1

Journal of the Indonesian Mathematical Society, 8(4): 39-47, 2002

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

9 pages, 4 figures, presented in IAMS-Netherlands Seminar 2002

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The Nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation is used to model surface waves in wave tanks of hydrodynamic laboratories. Analysis of the linearized NLS equation shows that its harmonic solutions with a small amplitude modulation have a tendency to grow exponentially due to the so-called Benjamin-Feir instability. To investigate this growth in detail, we relate the linearized solution of the NLS equation to a fully nonlinear, exact solution, called soliton on finite background. As a result, we find that in the range of instability the maximum amplitude increase is finite and can be at most three times the initial amplitude.

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