Comments on Periodic Waves and Solitons

DOI10.1093/imamat/32.1-3.353zbMath0565.35090OpenAlexW2107246240MaRDI QIDQ3679632

G. B. Whitham

Publication date: 1984

Published in: IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/32.1-3.353

zbMATH Keywords

wave propagationBurgers' equationshock wavesBoussinesq equationsperiodic wavesKorteweg-de Vriesmultiphase solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Periodic solutions to PDEs (35B10) Soliton equations (35Q51) Soliton theory, asymptotic behavior of solutions of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37K40)

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