A Hamiltonian approach to nonlinear modulation of surface water waves

Wave Motion

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 552-563

  Craig, Walter ^a   Guyenne, Philippe ^b   Sulem, Catherine ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dispersive equations; Hamiltonian PDEs; Modulation theory; Nonlinear Schr dinger equation

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAMILTONIANS; MODULATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WATER WAVES;

DAVEY-STEWARTSON EQUATIONS; DINGER EQUATION; DISPERSIVE EQUATIONS; HAMILTONIAN APPROACH; HAMILTONIAN FORMULATIONS; HAMILTONIAN PDES; MODULATION THEORY; NONLINEAR MODULATION;

SURFACE WATERS;

NUMERICAL METHOD; OCEAN WAVE; SURFACE WATER; THEORETICAL STUDY; WATER WAVE; WAVE EQUATION;

EID: 77958105752     PISSN: 01652125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wavemoti.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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