Decomposition of the Boussinesq equations for shallow-water waves into a set of coupled Korteweg–de Vries equations

DOI10.1063/1.857882zbMath0753.76026OpenAlexW1991885819MaRDI QIDQ4001011

Franco Mattioli

Publication date: 26 September 1992

Published in: Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.857882

zbMATH Keywords

slowly varying depthnonlinear interaction term

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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