The Korteweg-de Vries equation: a historical essay

DOI10.1017/S0022112081001559zbMath0468.76003OpenAlexW2163247815WikidataQ56228219 ScholiaQ56228219MaRDI QIDQ3922354

J. W. Miles

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112081001559

zbMATH Keywords

Korteweg-de Vries equationstring of nonlinear coupled oscillators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Operator partial differential equations (= PDEs on finite-dimensional spaces for abstract space valued functions) (35R20) History of fluid mechanics (76-03)

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