On the speed and profile of steep solitary waves

DOI10.1098/rspa.1976.0102zbMath0346.76010OpenAlexW2116423474MaRDI QIDQ4116159

J. G. B. Byatt-Smith, Michael S. Longuet-Higgins

Publication date: 1976

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1976.0102

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25)

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