Stokes waves are unstable

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• Vera Mikyoung Hur (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Monday 18 July 2022, 13:30-14:30
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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I will discuss a new periodic Evans function approach for cylindrical domains, and its application to the spectral instability of Stokes waves in the finite depth. Numerical evidence suggests instability whenever the unperturbed wave is ‘resonant’ with its infinitesimal perturbation waves. This has not been studied analytically except the Benjamin-Feir instability, near the origin of the spectral plane, when (wave number)x(depth)>1.3627… for small amplitude. I will discuss an alternative proof of the Benjamin-Feir instability and, also, the first proof of spectral instability away from the origin, when (wave number)x(depth) is not 1.8494…, thereby all Stokes waves are unstable. Joint work with Z. Yang.

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