Beyond-all-orders effects in multiple-scales asymptotics: Travelling-wave solutions to the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation

Journal of Engineering Mathematics

Volumn 45, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 197-226

  Adams, K L ^a   King, J R ^a   Tew, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exponential asymptotics; Kuramoto Sivashinsky; Multiple scales

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SHOCK WAVES;

MULTIPLE-SCALES ASYMPTOTICS;

ENGINEERING;

EQUATION; FLOW PATTERN; FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SHOCK;

EID: 0037387526     PISSN: 00220833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022600411856     Document Type: Article

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