The origins of water wave theory

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-28

  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

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

LINEAR THEORY; NONLINEAR WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

FLUID MECHANICS; GRAVITY WAVE; INVISCID FLUID; SOLITARY WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; WATER WAVE;

FLUID MECHANICS; GRAVITY WAVE; SOLITARY WAVE; SURFACE WAVE; WATER WAVE;

EID: 1642309095     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.36.050802.122118     Document Type: Article

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