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Surface Wave Instability

Surface Wave Instability is a dynamical phenomenon in fluid mechanics characterized by the spontaneous growth of perturbations on the interface of two fluids under the influence of gravity, distinguishing it from stable surface gravity waves by its inherent susceptibility to nonlinear or parametric amplification mechanisms.

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387

Stability of periodic waves of finite amplitude on the surface of a deep fluid

Journal of Applied Mechanics and Technical Physics · 1968 · 2.5K citations

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Physical mechanisms of the rogue wave phenomenon

Christian Kharif, Efim Pelinovsky · European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids · 2003 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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Oceanic Rogue Waves

K. B. Dysthe, Harald E. Krogstad, Peter Müller · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 2008 · 999 citations

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Collapse of Langmuir Waves

В. Е. Захаров · Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics · 1972 · 864 citations

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Well-posedness in Sobolev spaces of the full water wave problem in 3-D

Sijue Wu · Journal of the American Mathematical Society · 1999 · 503 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. SP
    S. P. Lin

    Clarkson University, United States

    7 publications · 395 citations

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  2. SF
    S. Fauve

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    5 publications · 900 citations

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  3. JP
    J. P. Gollub

    Haverford College, United States

    5 publications · 446 citations

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  4. MS
    M. S. Longuet‐Higgins

    University of California San Diego, United States

    5 publications · 286 citations

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  5. JV
    Jorge Viñals

    Florida State University, United States

    4 publications · 200 citations

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Institutions

394

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    14 h-index

    34 publications

    2.1K citations

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    12 h-index

    19 publications

    1.3K citations

  3. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

    Kharagpur, India

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    278 citations

  4. Institute of Applied Physics

    Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    1.3K citations

  5. Haverford College

    Haverford, United States

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    1.3K citations

  6. Sorbonne Université

    Paris, France

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    229 citations

  7. Russian Academy of Sciences

    Moscow, Russia

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    448 citations

  8. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    291 citations

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  1. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    71 publications · 5.3K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 17 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. Physics of Fluids

    22 publications · 771 citations

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  5. The Physics of Fluids

    12 publications · 796 citations

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