Mathematics – History and Overview
Scientific paper
2006-02-28
Forum der Berliner Mathematischen Gesellschaft, Band 19, Dezember 2011, pp. 171-195
Mathematics
History and Overview
minor corrections; 25 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
The Korteweg-de Vries equation has a central place in a model for waves on shallow water and it is an example of the propagation of weakly dispersive and weakly nonlinear waves. Its history spans a period of about sixty years, starting with experiments of Scott Russell in 1834, followed by theoretical investigations of, among others, Lord Rayleigh and Boussinesq in 1871 and, finally, Korteweg and De Vries in 1895. In this essay we compare the work of Boussinesq and Korteweg-de Vries, stressing essential differences and some interesting connections. Although there exist a number of articles, reviewing the origin and birth of the Korteweg-de Vries equations, connections and differences, not generally known, are reported.
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