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"" . . . if a physical system is capable of supporting solitary wave motions then such motions will invariably arise from quite general excitations. "" - T. Maxworthy (1980), pg. 52. The discover of nonlocal solitary waves is unknown and anonymous, but he or she lived in the dry north of Australia many millenia before the birth of writing. There, on the shores of the Gulf of Carpentaria, vast cylinders of cloud roll from northeast to southwest most mornings. Perhaps 300 meters in diameter, perhaps 500 meters above the ocean, these cylinders of cloud stretch from horizon to horizon. As the cloud evaporates on the trailing edge of the wave and condenses on the leading edge, the cylinder appears to roll backwards even as it propagates inland at perhaps 10-20 meters per second. Often, a whole train of cloud-cylinders propagates from Cape Yorke Penisula across the Gulf towards the southwest across modern Burketown, perhaps as much as 500 km inland into the Northern Territory. Modern-day Australians call it the ""Morning Glory"". What the discover called it, so many centuries before the invention of hieroglyphics, the foundation of Ur and the coronation of the First Dynasty of China, we do not know. But unless he was very different from us, he felt awe. Physicists (Smith, 1988, and Rottman and Einaudi, 1!:!93) have identified the Morning Glory as a solitary wave.

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Author:   John P. Boyd
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Volume:   442
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.976kg
ISBN:  

9781461376705

ISBN 10:   146137670
Pages:   596
Publication Date:   08 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I Overview.- 1 Introduction.- II Analytical Methods.- 2 The Method of Multiple Scales and the E-Power Series.- 3 Hyperasymptotic Perturbation Theory.- 4 Matched Asymptotic Expansions in The Complex Plane.- 5 Stokes’ Expansion, Resonance & Polycnoidal Waves.- 6 Theorems and Proofs: Existence Non-Existence & Symmetry.- III Numerical Methods.- 7 Pseudospectral and Galerkin Methods.- 8 Nonlinear Algebraic Equations.- 9 Special Algorithms for Exponentially Small Phenomena.- IV Applications.- 10 Water Waves: Fifth-Order Korteweg-Devries Equation.- 11 Rossby & Internal Gravity Waves: Nonlocal Higher Modes.- 12 The ?4 Breather.- 13 Envelope Solitary Waves: Third Order Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation and the Klein-Gordon Equation.- 14 Temporal Analogues: Separatrix Splitting &The Slow Manifold.- 15 Micropterons.- V Radiative Decay &Other Exponentially Small Phenomena.- 16 Radiative Decay Of Weakly Nonlocal Solitary Waves.- 17 Non-Soliton Exponentially Small Phenomena.- 18 The Future.- References.

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