Nonlinear dispersive waves: Asymptotic analysis and solitons

Nonlinear Dispersive Waves

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-348

  Ablowitz, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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