Stability of modified Korteweg-de Vries waves
Abstract
A nonlinear wave theory is developed on the basis of the Infeld-Rowlands method to study the stability of modified Korteweg-de Vries waves. A general stability criterion is derived in order to show that unstable waves exist.
- Publication:
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Australian Journal of Physics
- Pub Date:
- 1987
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1987AuJPh..40..593M
- Keywords:
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- Flow Stability;
- Korteweg-Devries Equation;
- Nonlinear Systems;
- Wave Propagation;
- Periodic Variations;
- Perturbation Theory;
- Shock Waves;
- Solitary Waves;
- Physics (General)