Crest instabilities of gravity waves. Part 3. Nonlinear development and breaking

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 336, Issue , 1997, Pages 33-50

  Longuet Higgins, Michael S ^a   Dommermuth, Douglas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; FLOW OF WATER; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WATER WAVES;

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL TIME STEPPING METHOD; NONLINEAR RECURRENCE PHENOMENA; STEEP IRROTATIONAL WATER WAVE;

GRAVITY WAVES;

GRAVITY WAVES; INSTABILITY;

EID: 0031126534     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002211209600403X     Document Type: Article

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