Solitons from sine waves: Analytical and numerical methods for non- integrable solitary and cnoidal waves

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(86)90003-5zbMath0611.35080OpenAlexW2063740279MaRDI QIDQ1087743

John P. Boyd

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/26057

zbMATH Keywords

solitary wavesinverse scattering transformsolitonsspatially periodic solutionscnoidal wavessine wavesbiondouble-peaked soliton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99)

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