The Modulation of a Weakly Nonlinear Wave Packet in an Inhomogeneous Medium

DOI10.1137/0140002zbMath0459.35078OpenAlexW2006098168MaRDI QIDQ3909424

R. H. J. Grimshaw

Publication date: 1981

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/0140002

zbMATH Keywords

evolution equationnonlinear Schrödinger equationwave packetslong wave equationscomplex wave amplitudedissipative Klein-Gordon equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99)

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