A plethora of solitary gravity-capillary water waves with nearly critical Bond and Froude numbers

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1707, 1996, Pages 575-607

  Buffoni, B ^a   Groves, M D ^a,b   Toland, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY/CAPILLARY; MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; WATER WAVES;

EID: 0029656885     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0020     Document Type: Article

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