Modulation theory, dispersive shock waves and Gerald Beresford Whitham

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2015.10.017MaRDI QIDQ2000224zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Noel F. Smyth, A. A. Minzoni

Publication date 28 June 2019

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/21921970/whitham.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

biographyaveraged Lagrangianundular boremodulation theorydispersive shock wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of partial differential equations (35-03) History of mechanics of deformable solids (74-03) History of fluid mechanics (76-03)

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