Dynamics of steep two-dimensional gravity-capillary solitary waves

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 664, Issue , 2010, Pages 466-477

  Milewski, Paul A ^a   Vanden Broeck, J M ^b   Wang, Zhan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

capillary waves; solitary waves; surface gravity waves

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES;

CAPILLARY WAVE; DEPRESSION WAVES; ELEVATION WAVES; HEAD-ON COLLISION; LARGE AMPLITUDE; LINEAR DISPERSION RELATIONS; SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRAVITY;

SOLITONS;

CAPILLARY WAVE; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SOLITARY WAVE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW; WAVE FIELD;

EID: 78649936377     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010004714     Document Type: Article

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