May 18 – 22, 2026
Institut Henri Poincaré
Europe/Paris timezone

On the Instability of Small Stokes Waves

May 21, 2026, 3:20 PM
50m
Amphithéâtre Hermite (Institut Henri Poincaré)

Amphithéâtre Hermite

Institut Henri Poincaré

11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie 75005 Paris

Speaker

Miguel Rodrigues (Univ Rennes)

Description

Co-authors: Ziang Jiao, Zhao Yang (Beijing, China), Changzhen Sun (Besançon, France)
Abstract: We report on a recent proof that all irrotational planar periodic travelling waves of sufficiently small-amplitude are spectrally unstable as solutions to three-dimensional inviscid finite-depth gravity water-waves equations. The associated temporal growth scales sharply with respect to the amplitude of the wave.

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