Mathematics and Its Applications: Weakly Nonlocal Solitary Waves and Beyond-All-Orders Asymptotics: Generalized Solitons and Hyperasymptotic Perturbation Theory (Hardcover)

John P Boyd
Springer Us
9780792350729
0-7923-5072-3

This is the first thorough examination of weakly nonlocal solitary waves, which are just as important in applications as their classical counterparts. The book describes a class of waves that radiate away.

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from the core of the disturbance but are nevertheless very long-lived nonlinear disturbances.