Wave interactions - the evolution of an idea

DOI10.1017/S0022112081001572zbMath0467.76020MaRDI QIDQ3920857

Owen Martin Phillips

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear Schrödinger equation; second order; wave interactions; gravity-capillary waves; Benjamin-Feir instability; continuously stratified fluid; third order of approximation; energy exchanges; pulse solitons; solitary waves in shallow water

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

76B25: Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

76-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to fluid mechanics

76-03: History of fluid mechanics

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