Stabilizing the Benjamin-Feir instability

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 539, Issue , 2005, Pages 229-271

  Segur, Harvey ^a   Henderson, Diane ^b   Carter, John ^c   Hammack, Joe ^b   Li, Cong Ming ^a   Pheiff, Dana ^b   Socha, Katherine ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DAMPING; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WATER WAVES;

BENJAMIN-FEIR INSTABILITY; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DAMPING; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WATER WAVES;

INSTABILITY; OSCILLATING FLOW; WAVE;

EID: 21344464558     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211200500563X     Document Type: Article

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