Strongly nonlinear steepening of long interfacial waves

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 247-256

  Zahibo, N ^a   Slunyaev, A ^b   Talipova, T ^b   Pelinovsky, E ^b,c   Kurkin, A ^c   Polukhina, O ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c NIZHNY NOVGOROD STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY N A R E ALEKSEEV   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; NONLINEAR WAVE; TRANSFORMATION; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 34250189547     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-14-247-2007     Document Type: Article

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