Hamiltonian form of the modified nonlinear Schrdinger equation for gravity waves on arbitrary depth

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 670, Issue , 2011, Pages 404-426

  Gramstad, Odin ^a   Trulsen, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Hamiltonian theory; surface gravity waves; variational methods

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; HAMILTONIANS;

DEEP WATER; FOURTH ORDER; NIELSEN; NONLINEAR SCHRDINGER EQUATIONS; SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES; VARIATIONAL METHODS; WAVE MOTIONS; ZAKHAROV EQUATIONS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

GRAVITY WAVE; NONLINEARITY; SURFACE WAVE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WAVE EQUATION;

EID: 79952761568     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010005355     Document Type: Article

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