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Within the framework of the Lagrangian approach a method for describing a wave packet on the surface of an infinitely deep, viscous fluid is developed. The case, in which the inverse Reynolds number is of the order of the wave steepness squared is analyzed. The expressions for fluid particle trajectories are determined, accurate to the third power of the steepness. The conditions, under which the packet envelope evolution is described by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a dissipative term linear in the amplitude, are determined. The rule, in accordance with which the term of this type can be correctly added in the evolutionary equation of an arbitrary order is formulated.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Abrashkin, Yu.P. Bodunova, 2013, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, 2013, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 95–103.
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Abrashkin, A.A., Bodunova, Y.P. Packet of gravity surface waves at high Reynolds numbers. Fluid Dyn 48, 223–231 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0015462813020099
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