Whitham modulation equations, coalescing characteristics, and dispersive Boussinesq dynamics

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2016.01.003MaRDI QIDQ2000230zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel J. Ratliff, Thomas J. Bridges

Publication date 28 June 2019

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physd.2016.01.003

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian systemsmodulationnonlinear waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10)

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