Experimental and numerical study of spatial and temporal evolution of nonlinear wave groups

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 931-942

  Shemer, L ^a   Dorfman, B ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NONLINEAR WAVE; NUMERICAL METHOD; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 59649086168     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-15-931-2008     Document Type: Article

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