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In 1844 the Scottish John Scott Russell was the first people to observe the solitary waves. As stated in Chapter 11, Russell called the bulge of water, that he observed, a “great wave of translation” [9]. The wave was traveling along the channel of water for a long period of time while still retaining its original identity.
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Wazwaz, AM. (2009). Solitary Waves Theory. In: Partial Differential Equations and Solitary Waves Theory. Nonlinear Physical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00251-9_12
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