George Gabriel Stokes on water wave theory

Alexander Duncan Davidson Craik

doi:10.1146/annurev.fluid.37.061903.175836

George Gabriel Stokes on water wave theory

Alexander Duncan Davidson Craik

Applied Mathematics

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Abstract

George Gabriel Stokes died just over 100 years ago, and it has been more than 150 years since he published his great 1847 paper on water waves. The work of Stokes' precursors, which informed his early publications of 1842-50, is described in the previous volume of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (Craik 2004). Here I examine Stokes' papers and letters concerning water waves.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	23-42
Number of pages	20
Journal	Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
Volume	37
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.fluid.37.061903.175836
Publication status	Published - 2005

Keywords

surface gravity waves
history of fluid mechanics
nonlinear waves
solitary waves
inviscid hydrodynamics
KORTEWEG-DEVRIES EQUATION
HYDRODYNAMICS

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George Gabriel Stokes on water wave theory

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