Modulational Instability and Variational Structure
Modulational Instability and Variational Structure
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调制不稳定性和变分结构
DOI:
10.1111/sapm.12029
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发表时间:
2013
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
V. M. Hur
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作者:
J. Bronski;V. M. Hur
We study the modulational instability of periodic traveling waves for a class of Hamiltonian systems in one spatial dimension. We examine how the Jordan block structure of the associated linearized operator bifurcates for small values of the Floquet exponent to derive a criterion governing instability to long wavelengths perturbations in terms of the kinetic and potential energies, the momentum, the mass of the underlying wave, and their derivatives. The dispersion operator of the equation is allowed to be nonlocal, for which Evans function techniques may not be applicable. We illustrate the results by discussing analytically and numerically equations of Korteweg‐de Vries type.