A Legendre-pseudospectral method for computing travelling waves with corners (slope discontinuities) in one space dimension with application to Whitham's equation family

DOI10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00203-1zbMath1027.65136OpenAlexW2090386765MaRDI QIDQ1401136

John P. Boyd

Publication date: 17 August 2003

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0021-9991(03)00203-1

zbMATH Keywords

cnoidal wavesWhitham equationpseudospectral algorithmCorner wavestravelling waves with corners

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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Uses Software

• Differentiation Matrix Suite

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