Soliton generation and multiple phases in dispersive shock and rarefaction wave interaction

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ablowitz, M J ^a   Baldwin, D E ^a   Hoefer, M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE NUMBER; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATIONS; PHASE SOLUTIONS; RAREFACTION WAVES; SMALL AMPLITUDE; SOLITON GENERATION; WAVE TRAIN;

SOLITONS;

EID: 68949087993     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.016603     Document Type: Article

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