Dynamics of three-dimensional gravity-capillary solitary waves in deep water

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2390-2408

  Akers, Benjamin ^a   Milewski, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity capillary wave; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation; Solitary wave; Water wave; Wave collapse

Indexed keywords

DEEP WATER; DINGER EQUATION; ENERGY RELATIONS; GRAVITY CAPILLARY WAVES; MODEL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL CONTINUATION METHODS; QUADRATIC APPROXIMATION; SOLITARY WAVE; SOLITARY WAVE SOLUTION; SPECTRAL STABILITY; STABILITY PREDICTION; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TRANSVERSE DIRECTIONS; TRANSVERSE INSTABILITY; WAVE COLLAPSE;

BLOOD VESSELS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLITONS; STABILITY; WATER WAVES;

WAVE EQUATIONS;

EID: 77956246729     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090758386     Document Type: Article

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