George Gabriel stokes on water wave theory

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2005, Pages 23-42

  Craik, Alex D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

History of fluid mechanics; Inviscid hydrodynamics; Nonlinear waves; Solitary waves; Surface gravity waves

Indexed keywords

FLUID MECHANICS; PUBLISHING; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

PUBLICATIONS; WATER WAVE THEORY;

WATER WAVES;

FLUID MECHANICS;

EID: 14544299592     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.37.061903.175836     Document Type: Article

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