On the incipient breaking of small scale waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112074001583zbMath0303.76004MaRDI QIDQ4058361

Owen Martin Phillips, Michael L. Banner

Publication date: 1974

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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