Nonlinear Dispersive Waves

by Mark J. Ablowitz and Ablowitz J. Mark J.

Book Overview

The field of nonlinear dispersive waves has developed enormously since the work of Stokes, Boussinesq and Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) in the nineteenth century. In the 1960s, researchers developed effective asymptotic methods for deriving nonlinear wave equations, such as the KdV equation, governing a broad class of physical phenomena that admit special solutions including those commonly known as solitons. This book describes the underlying approximation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107664101
• ISBN13: 9781107664104
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"