Shallow Water Waves and Solitary Waves
arXiv:1308.5383
Abstract
Encyclopedic article covering shallow water wave models used in oceanography and atmospheric science. Sections: Definition of the Subject; Introduction and Historical Perspective; Completely Integrable Shallow Water Wave Equations; Shallow Water Wave Equations of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Computation of Solitary Wave Solutions; Numerical Methods; Water Wave Experiments and Observations; Future Directions, and Bibliography.
27 pages, 8 figures. Updated article to appear in the 2013 online and 2015 print editions of the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Applied System Science, edited by Robert A. Meyers, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2013