Dynamics of gravity-capillary solitary waves in deep water

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 708, Issue , 2012, Pages 480-501

  Wang, Zhan ^a   Milewski, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

capillary waves; solitary waves; surface gravity waves

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVES; WATER WAVES;

BIFURCATION CURVES; CAPILLARY WAVE; GRAVITY-CAPILLARY SOLITARY WAVES; GRAVITY-CAPILLARY WATER WAVES; HIGHER-ORDER TRUNCATION; SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; TIME-DEPENDENT SOLUTIONS;

SOLITONS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CAPILLARY WAVE; DEEP WATER; FLUID MECHANICS; GRAVITY WAVE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL FLOW; SOLITARY WAVE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84866641691     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.320     Document Type: Article

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