Onset instability to nonpropagating hydrodynamic solitons

✍ Scribed by Weizhong Chen; Juan Tu; Rongjue Wei

• Book ID: 104337366
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 148 KB
• Volume: 255
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9601
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9601(99)00190-5

✦ Synopsis

The critical instability of the hydrodynamic solitons from a free and stationary surface has been systemically measured for various depths, breadths, and the ratio of the mixture solution of glycerin and water. The experiment shows that increasing the depth and breadth, and decreasing the ratio of the mixture mainly lead to the decreasing of the onset exciting acceleration. The experimental results have been qualitatively explained by linear stability theory in which the horizontal wave number has to be quantized due to the finite boundary of the small-aspect-ratio container.