On the shore singularity of water–wave theory. II. Small waves do not break on gentle beaches

DOI10.1063/1.865968zbMath0615.76022OpenAlexW2049507576MaRDI QIDQ4723482

Richard E. Meyer

Publication date: 1986

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865968

zbMATH Keywords

linear theorygravitational surface wavesbeaches of small slopebeach theoryincident-wave amplitudeinviscid water

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations (35J65) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99)

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