Stability of plane waves on deep water with dissipation

The Benjamin-Feir modulational instability effects the evolution of perturbed planewave solutions of the cubic nonlinear Schr¨odinger equation (NLS), the modified NLS, and the band-modified NLS. Recent work demonstrates that the BenjaminFeir instability in NLS is “stabilized” when a linear term representing dissipation is added. In this paper, we add a linear term representing dissipation to the modified NLS and band-modified NLS equations and establish that the plane-wave solutions of these equations are linearly stable. Although the plane-wave solutions are stable, some perturbations grow for a finite period of time. We analytically bound this growth and present approximate time-dependent regions of wave-number space that correspond to perturbations that have increasing amplitudes. Key words: Benjamin-Feir, dissipation, plane waves, NLS, stability

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: MCS
• Authors: Nathan E. Canney, John D. Carter
• Keywords: Band-modified Nls, Linear Term, MCS 2007, Modified Nls, Pattern Recognition