Periodic patterns, linear instability, symplectic structure and mean-flow dynamics for three-dimensional surface waves

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

Volumn 354, Issue 1707, 1996, Pages 533-574

  Bridges, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTABILITY; WAVES;

FLOW DYNAMICS; LINEAR INSTABILITY; WAVE;

EID: 0030513031     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0019     Document Type: Article

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