Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to the first edition
- Foreword to the second edition
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Linear waves and instabilities in infinite media
- 3 Convective and non-convective instabilities; group velocity in unstable media
- 4 A first look at surface waves and instabilities
- 5 Model equations for small amplitude waves and solitons; weakly nonlinear theory
- 6 Exact methods for fully nonlinear waves and solitons
- 7 Cartesian solitons in one and two space dimensions
- 8 Evolution and stability of initially one-dimensional waves and solitons
- 9 Cylindrical and spherical solitons in plasmas and other media
- 10 Soliton metamorphosis
- 11 Non-coherent phenomena
- Appendices
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
- Plate section
7 - Cartesian solitons in one and two space dimensions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to the first edition
- Foreword to the second edition
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Linear waves and instabilities in infinite media
- 3 Convective and non-convective instabilities; group velocity in unstable media
- 4 A first look at surface waves and instabilities
- 5 Model equations for small amplitude waves and solitons; weakly nonlinear theory
- 6 Exact methods for fully nonlinear waves and solitons
- 7 Cartesian solitons in one and two space dimensions
- 8 Evolution and stability of initially one-dimensional waves and solitons
- 9 Cylindrical and spherical solitons in plasmas and other media
- 10 Soliton metamorphosis
- 11 Non-coherent phenomena
- Appendices
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
- Plate section
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- Nonlinear Waves, Solitons and Chaos , pp. 166 - 201Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000