Wave attractors: Linear yet nonlinear

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in Applied Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2757-2782

  Maas, Leo R M ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Internal waves; Linear hyperbolic BVPs (boundary value problems); Self similarity; Wave attractors; Wave chaos; Wave focusing

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544474283     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127405013733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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