Interaction of sine-Gordon kinks with defects: The two-bounce resonance

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 195, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 303-323

  Goodman, Roy H ^a   Haberman, Richard ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sine Gordon kinks; Singular perturbation theory; Two bounce resonance

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OSCILLATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SOLITONS; VECTORS;

HETEROCLINIC ORBITS; SINE-GORDON KINKS; SINGULAR PERTURBATION TECHNIQUE; TWO-BOUNCE RESONANCE;

RESONANCE;

EID: 3342892305     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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