Korteweg–De Vries equation
Ecuación de Korteweg-de Vries
- Date
- 1877 · confidence medium
- Place
- Lille, Hauts-de-France, France
- Credited to
- Joseph Valentin Boussinesq
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
A partial differential equation modeling solitary waves in shallow water, introduced by Joseph Boussinesq in 1877 and rediscovered by Korteweg and de Vries in 1895, whose name it bears.
What it led to
- Soliton theory
- Inverse scattering methods
- Numerical simulation of nonlinear waves
- Integrable systems in mathematical physics