Gravity travelling waves for two superposed fluid layers, one being of infinite depth: A new type of bifurcation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 360, Issue 1799, 2002, Pages 2245-2336

  Iooss, Gérard ^a   Lombardi, Eric ^a   Sun, Shu Ming ^a  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Bifurcation theory; Homoclinic orbits; Infinite dimensional reversible dynamical systems; Nonlinear water waves; Normal forms with essential spectrum

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; FLOW KINETICS; GRAVITY; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PERIODICITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; WATER FLOW;

GRAVITATION; MOTION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERIODICITY; RHEOLOGY; SOLUTIONS; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 0037107541     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1071     Document Type: Article

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