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Non-symmetric gravity waves on water of infinite depth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2006

Juan A. Zufiria
Juan A. Zufiria
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology. Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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Abstract

Two different numerical methods are used to demonstrate the existence of and calculate non-symmetric gravity waves on deep water. It is found that they appear via spontaneous symmetry-breaking bifurcations from symmetric waves. The structure of the bifurcation tree is the same as the one found by Zufiria (1987) for waves on water of finite depth using a weakly nonlinear Hamiltonian model. One of the methods is based on the quadratic relations between the Stokes coefficients discovered by Longuet-Higgins (1978a). The other method is a new one based on the Hamiltonian structure of the water-wave problem.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 181 , August 1987 , pp. 17 - 39
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© 1987 Cambridge University Press

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