TY - BOOK ID - 77944482 TI - Nonlinear periodic waves and their modulations : an introductory course PY - 2000 SN - 9812792252 9789812792259 981024407X 9789810244071 PB - Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - Nonlinear waves. KW - Wave-motion, Theory of. KW - Solitons. KW - Pulses, Solitary wave KW - Solitary wave pulses KW - Wave pulses, Solitary KW - Connections (Mathematics) KW - Nonlinear theories KW - Wave-motion, Theory of KW - Waves KW - Undulatory theory KW - Mechanics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77944482 AB - Although the mathematical theory of nonlinear waves and solitons has made great progress, its applications to concrete physical problems are rather poor, especially when compared with the classical theory of linear dispersive waves and nonlinear fluid motion. The Whitham method, which describes the combining action of the dispersive and nonlinear effects as modulations of periodic waves, is not widely used by applied mathematicians and physicists, though it provides a direct and natural way to treat various problems in nonlinear wave theory. Therefore it is topical to describe recent developme ER -