Pulses, fronts and oscillations of an elastic rod

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 373-391

  Lega, Joceline ^a   Goriely, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude equations; Elastic rods; Nonlinear Klein Gordon equations; Nonlinear Schr dinger equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347596686     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00047-0     Document Type: Article

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