Three-dimensional modulation of electron-acoustic waves: 3 + 1 Davey–Stewartson system

In this paper we consider the three-dimensional modulation of an electron-acoustic wave by means of a multiple-scale perturbation method. We find that the governing equation for the amplitude that describes the asymptotic properties of the wave is a Davey–Stewartson system in three-space variables. We use the system to study the linear stability of the modulation wave and we compare our results with preceding studies by Kourakis and Shukla (2004) [8] on the oblique modulation problem based on a non-linear Schrödinger equation.