Viscous decay of envelope solitons in water waves

DOI10.1063/1.863319zbMath0477.76024OpenAlexW2024112602MaRDI QIDQ3933990

Harvey Segur

Publication date: 1981

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863319

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear Schrödinger equationconstant cross-sectiondecay rate of envelope solitonevolution of packet of nearly monochromatic waveslong rectangular wave tank

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10)

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