Cnoidal Waves as Exact Sums of Repeated Solitary Waves: New Series for Elliptic Functions

DOI10.1137/0144066zbMath0559.76019OpenAlexW1994021194MaRDI QIDQ5184527

John P. Boyd

Publication date: 1984

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/0144066

zbMATH Keywords

elliptic functionsFourier seriesKorteweg-de Vries equationPoisson summationcnoidal wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99)

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