A general approach to linear and non-lin
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Whitham, G. B.
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Article
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1965
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Cambridge University Press
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English
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The basic property of equations describing dispersive waves is the existence of solutions representing uniform wave trains. In this paper a general theory is given for non-uniform wave trains whose amplitude, wave-number, etc., vary slowly in space and time, the length and time scales of the variati