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A criterion for nonlinear wave stability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

K. Hasselmann
K. Hasselmann
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University of Hamburg
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Abstract

Nonlinear resonant wave triads composed of one finite and two infinitesimal components are unstable for sum interactions and neutrally stable for difference interactions. A similar criterion holds for tertiary interactions.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , 22 December 1967, pp. 737 - 739
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© 1967 Cambridge University Press

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