The trajectories of particles in steep, symmetric gravity waves
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The trajectories of particles in steep, symmetric gravity waves
zbMATH Open document ID: 0417.76019
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112079001154
published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics
publication date: 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76B15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76B25
zbMATH DE Number: 3650181
zbMATH Keywords: trajectories of particles
zbMATH Keywords: steep
zbMATH Keywords: symmetric gravity waves
zbMATH Keywords: water waves
zbMATH Keywords: solitary waves
zbMATH Keywords: ocean waves
zbMATH Keywords: qualitative and quantitative behavior
zbMATH Keywords: particle orbits
zbMATH Keywords: point of breaking
zbMATH Keywords: irrotational flows
zbMATH Keywords: Stokes' corner flow
zbMATH Keywords: elliptic integral
author: M. S. Longuet-Higgins
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: On the Highest and Other Solitary Waves
description: scientific article