%0 Journal Article
%@ 0022-1120
%A Wang, Z
%A Vanden-Broeck, J-M
%A Milewski, PA
%D 2014
%F discovery:1477288
%J Journal of Fluid Mechanics
%K capillary waves, solitary waves, surface gravity waves
%T Asymmetric gravity-capillary solitary waves on deep water
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1477288/
%V 759
%X We present new families of gravity–capillary solitary waves propagating on the surface of a two-dimensional deep fluid. These spatially localised travelling-wave solutions are non-symmetric in the wave propagation direction. Our computation reveals that these waves appear from a spontaneous symmetry-breaking bifurcation, and connect two branches of multi-packet symmetric solitary waves. The speed–energy bifurcation curve of asymmetric solitary waves features a zigzag behaviour with one or more turning points.
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