Generation of undular bores in the shelves of slowly-varying solitary waves

Chaos

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1015-1026

  El, G A ^a,c   Grimshaw, R H J ^b  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c PUSHKOV INSTITUTE OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0036930580     PISSN: 10541500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1507381     Document Type: Article

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