Traveling Waves in a Nonlinearly Suspended Beam: Theoretical Results and Numerical Observations

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 325-355

  Chen, Y ^a   McKenna, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 0001504510     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.1996.3155     Document Type: Article

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