Asymptotic description of solitary wave trains in fully nonlinear shallow-water theory

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 237, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 2423-2435

  El, G A ^a   Grimshaw, R H J ^a   Smyth, N F ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Shallow water waves; Soliton train; Undular bore; Whitham theory

Indexed keywords

INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; WATER WAVES;

AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ASYMPTOTIC FORMULA; INVERSE SCATTERING TRANSFORM; SHALLOW WATER WAVES; SOLITON TRAIN; UNDULAR BORE; WHITHAM THEORY;

SOLITONS;

EID: 49749097519     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2008.03.031     Document Type: Article

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