The first experimental observation of a solitary wave was made in August 1834 by a Scottish
engineer named John Scott Russell (1808–1882). He was mounted on a horse along the …

Solitons are mathematical objects which have excited theoreticians because of their wide
ranging applications in physics. They appear as solutions of particular nonlinear wave …

The origins of the subject of solitons date to detailed observations and experiments by John
Scott Russell, FRS Edinburgh. Russell initially observed a solitary wave in a barge canal …

During the last three decades, the phenomenon of the solitary wave, which was discovered
by the famous British scientist Scott Russell as early as in 1834, has been greatly concerned …

This monograph is planned to provide the application of the soliton theory to solve certain
practical problems selected from the fields of solid mechanics, fluid mechanics and …

Wave motion is a standard topic of introductory physics textbooks, and until the 1960s
mathematical physi? cists thought they understood nearly all of its properties and …

Solitary waves have been studied ever since John Scott Russell'followed on horseback a
large solitary elevation along a channel in 1834. He named that “singular and beautiful …

Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU,
England. Introduction When I was invited to speak before this learned Society it was …

After the initial observation by John Scott Russell of a solitary wave in a canal, his insightful
laboratory experiments and the subsequent theoretical work of Boussinesq, Rayleigh and …

In his Report on Recent Researches on Hydrodynamics to the British Association in 1846,
Stokes, commenting on Russell's experiments and Earnshaw's theory, concludes that the …