Convective linear stability of solitary waves for Boussinesq equations

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 311-375

  Pego, Robert L ^a   Weinstein, Michael I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION; LINEARIZATION; LYAPUNOV METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; WATER WAVES;

BOUSSINESQ; BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; BOUSSINESQ MODEL; IS PROBLEMS; LINEAR STABILITY; LINEARIZED STABILITY; LONG WAVES; LYAPUNOV'S METHODS; SMALL AMPLITUDE; STABILITY ANALYZE;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0039573710     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9590.00063     Document Type: Article

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