Gravity solitary waves by minimization: An uncountable family

Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 339-352

  Buffoni, Boris ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Capillary gravity water waves; Solitary waves; Stability; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949653694     PISSN: 12303429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12775/TMNA.2009.046     Document Type: Article

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