Validity of the korteweg-de vries approximation for the two-dimensional water wave problem in the arc length formulation

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 381-429

  Düll, Wolf Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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EID: 84355162870     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 10970312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.21381     Document Type: Article

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