Researchers have long known that in many cases such minor imperfections grow and eventually completely distort the original wave as it travels over long distances, a phenomenon known as “modulational ...

Preprint available on the new manuscript "Whitham modulation theory for generalized Whitham equations and a general criterion for modulational instability" by Adam Binswanger et al.

This is the topic of Biondini and Mantzavinos' new paper. "Modulational instability has been known since the 1960s. When you have small perturbations at the input, you'll have big changes at the ...