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Explaining the physics of tsunamis to undergraduate and non-physics students

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Characteristics of solitary waves on a falling liquid film sheared by a turbulent counter-current gas flow

Solitary waves in longitudinally wrinkled and creased helicoids

Selection of solitary waves in vertically falling liquid films

Wave propagation in periodic buckled beams

Nondispersive Decay For The Cubic Wave Equation

Damage pattern and damage progression on breakwater roundheads under multidirectional waves

On the stability of travelling waves with vorticity obtained by minimization

Existence and conditional energetic stability of three-dimensional fully localised solitary gravity-capillary water waves

Propagation of surge waves in channels with large-scale bank roughness

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