Wave breaking and shock waves for a periodic shallow water equation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1858, 2007, Pages 2281-2289

  Escher, Joachim ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Peakons; Shallow water equation; Shock waves; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548219119     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2007.2008     Document Type: Article

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