Nonlinear-dispersive mechanism of the freak wave formation in shallow water

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 147, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 83-94

  Pelinovsky, Efim ^a   Talipova, Tatiana ^a   Kharif, Christian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Korteweg de Vries equation; Solitons; Water waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040515945     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(00)00149-4     Document Type: Article

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