Slowly Varying Solitary Wave Tails: Focusing, Cusped Caustics, Wave Number Shocks and Birth of Tails

DOI10.1137/0145055MaRDI QIDQ3705092zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Haberman, Darrell E. Allgaier

Publication date 1985

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/0145055

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionCole-Hopf transformationcusped causticexistenceexponential-type Pearcey integralmethod of characteristicsnecessary conditionshock velocitystable slowly varying tailtail of slowly varying solitary waves and solitonsthin focusing regionwave number breakingwave number shock

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25)

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