The Korteweg-de Vries equation: a historical essay

DOI10.1017/S0022112081001559zbMath0468.76003WikidataQ56228219 ScholiaQ56228219MaRDI QIDQ3922354

J. W. Miles

Publication date: 1981

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

zbMATH Keywords

Korteweg-de Vries equation; string of nonlinear coupled oscillators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

76B25: Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

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

35R20: Operator partial differential equations (= PDEs on finite-dimensional spaces for abstract space valued functions)

76-03: History of fluid mechanics

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