Nonlinear waves in shallow honeycomb lattices

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 240-260

  Ablowitz, Mark J ^a   Zhu, Yi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coupled mode equation; Honeycomb lattices; Nonlinear Dirac equation

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC BALANCE; BLOCH MODES; COUPLED MODE EQUATION; DIRAC EQUATIONS; DIRAC POINT; DISPERSION RELATIONS; EIGEN-VALUE; HONEYCOMB LATTICES; LEADING ORDERS; MULTISCALES; NONLINEAR WAVES; PERTURBATION METHOD; PERTURBATION THEORY; THREE-LEVEL; WAVE ENVELOPE;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 84861606449     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/11082662X     Document Type: Article

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