Head-on collision of two solitary waves and residual falling jet formation

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 111-122

  Chambarel, J ^a   Kharif, C ^a   Touboul, J ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD; JET FLOW; NONLINEARITY; RESIDENCE TIME; SOLITARY WAVE; WATER DEPTH; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE REFLECTION; WAVE RUNUP;

EID: 77949469680     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-16-111-2009     Document Type: Article

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