Stability and instability of solitary waves of the fifth-order KdV equation: A numerical framework

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 172, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 190-216

  Bridges, Thomas J ^a   Derks, Gianne ^a   Gottwald, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evans function; Fifth order KdV; Linear stability; Numerical exterior algebra

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LINEARIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STABILITY;

SOLITARY WAVES;

PLASMA WAVES;

EID: 0037112236     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00655-3     Document Type: Article

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