TY - JOUR T1 - Quadratic Life Span of Periodic Gravity-capillary Water Waves Y1 - 2021 A1 - Massimiliano Berti A1 - Roberto Feola A1 - Luca Franzoi AB -

We consider the gravity-capillary water waves equations for a bi-dimensional fluid with a periodic one-dimensional free surface. We prove a rigorous reduction of this system to Birkhoff normal form up to cubic degree. Due to the possible presence of three-wave resonances for general values of gravity, surface tension, and depth, such normal form may be not trivial and exhibit a chaotic dynamics (Wilton ripples). Nevertheless, we prove that for all the values of gravity, surface tension, and depth, initial data that are of size $$ \varepsilon $$in a sufficiently smooth Sobolev space leads to a solution that remains in an $$ \varepsilon $$-ball of the same Sobolev space up times of order $$ \varepsilon ^{-2}$$. We exploit that the three-wave resonances are finitely many, and the Hamiltonian nature of the Birkhoff normal form.

VL - 3 SN - 2523-3688 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s42286-020-00036-8 IS - 1 JO - Water Waves ER -