= A general approach to linear and non-linear dispersive waves using a Lagrangian by Gerald Beresford Whitham
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Primary source: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112065000745
Publisher text: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mechanics/article/abs/general-approach-to-linear-and-nonlinear-dispersive-waves-using-a-lagrangian/0B2CF85E51FBB983969B30C94EF3C83C
Cited passage: abstract, general averaged variational formulation for slowly varying wave trains. The simple linear-wave example in the concept articles is derived explicitly there rather than attributed to an uninspected page of the paper.
Publisher author G. B. Whitham is verified as Gerald Beresford Whitham by the Caltech Library author authority: https://feeds.library.caltech.edu/people/Whitham-G-B/article.html . Original publication: Journal of Fluid Mechanics22(2), June1965, pp273–283. Cambridge online-posting date 28 March2006 is distinct from original journal publication.
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