Edited by R.H.J. Grimshaw, this book covers the topic of solitary waves in fluids.

This is the first thorough examination of weakly nonlocal solitary waves, which are just as important in applications as their classical counterparts. The book

Non-linear behaviour of water waves has recently drawn much attention of scientists and engineers in the fields of oceanography, applied mathematics, coastal en

The dynamics of flows in density-stratified fluids has been and remains now an important topic for scientific enquiry. Such flows arise in many contexts, rangin

Since the first description by John Scott Russel in 1834, the solitary wave phenomenon has attracted considerable interests from scientists. The most interestin