Short-lived large-amplitude pulses in the nonlinear long-wave model described by the modified Korteweg-de vries equation

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-210

  Grimshaw, Roger ^a   Pelinovsky, Efim ^a   Talipova, Tatiana ^a   Ruderman, Michael ^a   Erdélyi, Róbert ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION;

% REDUCTIONS; ASYMPTOTICS; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES; LARGE AMPLITUDE; LONG WAVE MODELS; MODIFIED KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATIONS; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; PROPERTY; WAVE GENERATION; WEAKLY NON-LINEAR;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 12844257603     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2526.2005.01544.x     Document Type: Article

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