A global investigation of solitary-wave solutions to a two-parameter model for water waves

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 342, Issue , 1997, Pages 199-229

  Champneys, Alan R ^a   Groves, Mark D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

HOMOCLINIC ORBITS; SOLITARY WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

SOLITARY WAVE; WATER WAVE;

SOLITARY WAVES; WATER WAVES;

EID: 0031177685     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112097005193     Document Type: Article

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