TY - JOUR TI - Asymmetric gravity-capillary solitary waves on deep water N1 - Copyright © 2014 Cambridge University Press. ID - discovery1477288 Y1 - 2014/11// JF - Journal of Fluid Mechanics UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2014.567 A1 - Wang, Z A1 - Vanden-Broeck, J-M A1 - Milewski, PA SN - 0022-1120 N2 - 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. VL - 759 KW - capillary waves KW - solitary waves KW - surface gravity waves AV - public ER -