On the Korteweg—de Vries equation for a gradually varying channel

DOI10.1017/S0022112079000100zbMath0399.76027MaRDI QIDQ4184515

J. W. Miles

Publication date: 1979

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

zbMATH Keywords

JapanNonlinearChannelIntegral InvariantsCoastal EngineeringDispersive Unidirectional WaveFree-Surface DisplacementKorteweg De VriesShuto's GeneralizationSolitary WaveTwo-Dimensional Boussinesq Equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99)

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• Diffraction of solitary waves
• Variational methods and applications to water waves