Published December 1980
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Long wavelength bifurcation of gravity waves on deep water
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- Saffman, P. G.
Abstract
Conditions are found for the appearance of non-uniform progressive waves of permanent form from a long-wave modulation of a finite-amplitude Stokes wave on deep water. The waveheight at which the modulated waves can occur is a very slowly decreasing function of the modulation wavelength for values up to 150 times the original wavelength. Some qualitative remarks are made about the problem of determining the stability of the new waves.
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© 1980 Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission. (Received 12 December 1979 and in revised form 24 April 1980) The computations were carried out on the CDC STAR 100 at the CDC Service Center, Minneapolis. The provision of time on the machine by Control Data Corporation is gratefully acknowledged. Dr H.C. Yuen is thanked for the benefit of many stimulating discussions. The research was supported by the Office of Naval Research.Attached Files
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