Nonlinear counterpropagating waves, multisymplectic geometry, and the instability of standing waves

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2096-2120

  Bridges, Thomas J ^a   Laine Pearson, Fiona E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hyperbolic PDEs; Modulation instability; Periodic waves; Variational principles; Water waves

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HAMILTONIANS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WATER WAVES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

HYPERBOLIC PDE; MODULATION INSTABILITY; PERIODIC WAVES; VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 11044220906     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139903423753     Document Type: Article

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