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)00203-1zbMath1027.65136MaRDI 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 waves; Whitham equation; pseudospectral algorithm; Corner waves; travelling waves with corners

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q35: PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics

65M70: Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

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Uses Software

• Differentiation Matrix Suite

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