Solitary Waves in Fluid Media

Download or read book Solitary Waves in Fluid Media written by Claire David and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first description by John Scott Russel in 1834, the solitary wave phenomenon has attracted considerable interests from scientists. The most interesting discovery since then has been the ability to integrate most of the nonlinear wave equations which govern solitary waves, from the Korteweg-de Vries equation to the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, in the 1960's. From that moment, a huge amount of theoretical works can be found on solitary waves. Due to the fact that many physical phenomena can be described by a soliton model, applications have followed each other, in telecommunications