KDV theory the chilean tsunami of 1960

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 623-632

  Stuhlmeier, Raphael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Korteweg de vries equation; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350639800     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2009.12.623     Document Type: Article

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