On the nonlinear critical layer below a nonlinear unsteady surface wave

DOI10.1017/S0022112086002847zbMath0629.76018MaRDI QIDQ3766992

R. S. Johnson

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112086002847

zbMATH Keywords

Euler equations; asymptotic expansions; Korteweg-de Vries equation; two-dimensional channel; nonlinear critical layer; formation of the Cat's eye; unsteady free surface wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

35Q99: Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

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