On asymmetric gravity-capillary solitary waves

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 330, Issue , 1997, Pages 215-232

  Yang, T S ^a   Akylas, T R ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CAPILLARITY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; SPEED; VELOCITY;

BOND NUMBER; FIFTH ORDER KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION; INFINITESIMAL PERIODIC WAVES; NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATION; SOLITARY WAVES;

LIQUID WAVES;

GRAVITY WAVES; MODELLING; SOLITARY WAVES;

ASYMMETRIC GRAVITY-CAPILLARY WAVES; SOLITARY WAVES; WAVE MODELLING;

EID: 0030769574     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112096003643     Document Type: Article

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