Milewski, P;
Vanden-Broeck, J-M;
Wang, Z;
(2010)
Dynamic of steep two-dimensional gravity-capillary solitary waves.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
, 664
466 - 477.
10.1017/S0022112010004714.
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Abstract
In this paper, the unsteady evolution of two-dimensional fully nonlinear free-surface gravity–capillary solitary waves is computed numerically in infinite depth. Gravity–capillary wavepacket-type solitary waves were found previously for the full Euler equations, bifurcating from the minimum of the linear dispersion relation. Small and moderate amplitude elevation solitary waves, which were known to be linearly unstable, are shown to evolve into stable depression solitary waves, together with a radiated wave field. Depression waves and certain large amplitude elevation waves were found to be robust to numerical perturbations. Two kinds of collisions are computed: head-on collisions whereby the waves are almost unchanged, and overtaking collisions which are either almost elastic if the wave amplitudes are both large or destroy the smaller wave in the case of a small amplitude wave overtaking a large one.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Dynamic of steep two-dimensional gravity-capillary solitary waves |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1017/S0022112010004714 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022112010004714 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2010 Cambridge University Press |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/465929 |
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