On the stability of lumps and wave collapse in water waves

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

Volumn 366, Issue 1876, 2008, Pages 2761-2774

  Akylas, T R ^a   Cho, Yeunwoo ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Fifth order Kadomtsev Petviashvili equation; Lumps; Water waves; Wave collapse

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF STATE; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; FARM BUILDINGS; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GROUND STATE; LINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION; SYSTEM STABILITY; WATER WAVES; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE PACKETS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; BOND NUMBERS; COLLAPSE (DRYING); COUPLED EVOLUTION; CRITICAL VALUES; DISPERSIVE WAVES; ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS; FINITE DEPTH; FINITE TIME; GRAVITY-CAPILLARY WAVES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; KADOMTSEV PETVIASHVILI (MKP) EQUATION; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES (KDV); MEAN FLOWS; NON-LINEAR WAVES; NONLINEAR FOCUSING; SHALLOW WATERS; SOLITARY WAVES; STEADY SOLUTIONS; WATER-WAVE PROBLEMS; WAVE COLLAPSE; WAVE CRESTS; WAVE STEEPNESS;

WAVES;

EID: 46349087800     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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