Space-time surface gravity wave caustics: Structurally stable extreme wave events

Wave Motion

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 117-143

  Brown, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; POLYNOMIALS;

SPACE-TIME SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 0035255169     PISSN: 01652125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-2125(00)00054-8     Document Type: Article

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