Abstract
Capillary-gravity waves propagate in a layer of homogeneous fluid with a free surface under the combined influence of gravity and surface tension.
“Divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is shameful to base on them any demonstration whatsoever.”
— Niels Hendrik Abel (1828)
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Boyd, J.P. (1998). Water Waves: Fifth-Order Korteweg-Devries Equation. In: Weakly Nonlocal Solitary Waves and Beyond-All-Orders Asymptotics. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 442. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5825-5_10
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