An integrable model for stable:unstable wave coupling phenomena

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 178, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 173-189

  Forest, M Gregory ^a   Wright, Otis C ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b CEDARVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cubic Schr dinger equation; Instabilities structures; Plane waves; Wave coupling

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

NON-INTEGRABLE PERTURBATIONS;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037446035     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(02)00809-6     Document Type: Article

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