Accurate computations for steep solitary waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112083002050zbMath0525.76014MaRDI QIDQ3038834

John K. Hunter, Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck

Publication date: 1983

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

zbMATH Keywords

water of arbitrary uniform depthseries truncationfinite-amplitudehighest wavevery steep waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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• The singularity at the crest of a finite amplitude progressive Stokes wave
• The solitary wave of maximum amplitude
• An integral equation for unsteady surface waves and a comment on the Boussinesq equation
• A ninth-order solution for the solitary wave

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