Stability of solitary waves of a generalized ostrovsky equation

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 985-1011

  Levandosky, Steve ^a   Liu, Yue ^b  

^a Center for Interdisciplinary Studies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Solitary waves; Stability; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY WAVES; KORTEWEG DE VRIES EQUATION; OSTROVSKY EQUATION; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SOLITONS;

EID: 34249030634     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/050638722     Document Type: Article

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