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    or soliton). The 1872 paper of Boussinesq introduces the equations now known as the Boussinesq equations. The Boussinesq approximation for water waves...
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  • In fluid dynamics, the Boussinesq approximation (pronounced [businɛsk], named for Joseph Valentin Boussinesq) is used in the field of buoyancy-driven...
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    scattering method to solve the KdV equation. The KdV equation was first introduced by Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1877, footnote on page 360) and rediscovered...
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    Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (pronounced [ʒozɛf valɑ̃tɛ̃ businɛsk]; 13 March 1842 – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant...
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    extending the shallow-water equations using the Boussinesq approximation to incorporate dispersion effects. Shallow-water equations are especially suitable...
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  • R. (1963). "Intégration des équations du mouvement d'un fluide visqueux incompressible" [Integration of the equations of motion of a viscous incompressible...
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  • proposed by Joseph Valentin Boussinesq in 1885 and Alfred Barnard Basset in 1888. Consequently, it is also referred to as the Boussinesq–Basset force. Consider...
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    turbulence stresses to the mean flow to close the system of equations. Here the Boussinesq hypothesis is applied to model the Reynolds stress term. Note...
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  • Butterworth Heinemann. ISBN 0-7506-2633-X. Boussinesq, Joseph (1885). Application des potentiels à l'étude de l'équilibre et du mouvement des solides élastiques...
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    earlier by Barry Saltzman. The Lorenz equations are derived from the Oberbeck–Boussinesq approximation to the equations describing fluid circulation in a...
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