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A plethora of three-dimensional periodic travelling gravity-capillary water waves with multipulse transverse profiles
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posted on 2005-07-29, 16:08 authored by Mark D. Groves, B. SandstedeThis article presents a rigorous existence theory for three-dimensional gravity-capillary
water waves which are uniformly translating and periodic in one spatial direction x and have
the profile of a uni- or multipulse solitary wave in the other z. The waves are detected using
a combination of Hamiltonian spatial dynamics and homoclinic Lyapunov-Schmidt theory.
The hydrodynamic problem is formulated as an infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian system
in which z is the time-like variable, and a family of points Pk,k+1, k = 1, 2, . . . in
its two-dimensional parameter space is identified at which a Hamiltonian 0202 resonance
takes place (the zero eigenspace and generalised eigenspace are respectively two and four
dimensional). The point Pk,k+1 is precisely that at which a pair of two-dimensional periodic
linear travelling waves with frequency ratio k : k+1 simultaneously exist (‘Wilton ripples’).
A reduction principle is applied to demonstrate that the problem is locally equivalent to a
four-dimensional Hamiltonian system near Pk,k+1.
It is shown that a Hamiltonian real semisimple 1 : 1 resonance, where two geometrically
double real eigenvalues exist, arises along a critical curve Rk,k+1 emanating from Pk,k+1.
Unipulse transverse homoclinic solutions to the reduced Hamiltonian system at points of
Rk,k+1 near Pk,k+1 are found by a scaling and perturbation argument, and the homoclinic
Lyapunov-Schmidt method is applied to construct an infinite family of multipulse homoclinic
solutions which resemble multiple copies of the unipulse solutions.
History
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- Science
Department
- Mathematical Sciences
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This pre-print has been submitted, and accepted, to the journal, Journal of Nonlinear Science [© Springer]. The definitive version: GROVES, M.D. and SANDSTEDE, B., 2004. A plethora of three-dimensional periodic travelling gravity-capillary water waves with multipulse transverse profiles. Journal of Nonlinear Science, 14(3), pp. 297-340 is available at: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&eissn=1432-1467.Language
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