On interfacial gravity-capillary solitary waves of the Benjamin type and their stability

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1261-1270

  Calvo, David C ^a   Akylas, T R ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

SOLITARY WAVES;

CAPILLARY FLOW;

FLUID MECHANICS; SOLITARY WAVE; WAVE BEHAVIOR; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0037930679     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1564096     Document Type: Article

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