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B. Akers, Gravity-capillary solitary waves: forcing and dissipation

B. Akers and D.P. Nicholls, Stability and computation of water waves

B. Akers and P.A. Milewski, Wave collapse

Submitted Papers

B. Akers, The generation of capillary-gravity solitary waves by a surface pressure forcing, pdf

B. Akers and P.A. Milewski, Dynamics of three dimensional gravity-capillary solitary waves, pdf

B. Akers and D.P. Nicholls, Traveling waves with gravity and surface tension, pdf

Refereed Papers

B. Akers and P.A. Milewski, A model equation for wavepacket solitary waves arising from capillary-gravity flows, Stud. Appl. Math., 122, 249-274 (2009), pdf

B. Akers and P.A. Milewksi, A stability result for solitary waves in nonlinear dispersive equations, Comm. Math. Sci., 6, 791-797 (2008) pdf

B. Akers and P.A. Milewski, Model Equations for gravity-capillary waves in deep water, Stud. Appl. Math., 121, 49-69, (2008) pdf

B. Akers and O. Bokhove, Hydraulic flow through a channel contraction: multiple steady states. Phys. Fluids., 20, 056601 (2008) pdf , Movies

B. Akers and A. Belmonte, Impact dynamics of a solid sphere falling into a viscoelastic micellar fluid, J. Non-Newt. Fluid Mech., 135, 97-108 (2006) pdf

B. Akers, S. Bohun, P. Gibson, A. Hofinger, M. Lamoureux, J. Lobb, B. Mawby and M. Roberts.  General statistical design of an experimental problem for harmonics.  Can. Appl. Math. Q., 12(4):415--437, (2004) MR2220896

Less Refereed Publications

B. Akers, Shallow water flow through a channel contraction. Proceedings of the GFD Program. 97--117 (2005) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution pdf ,

B. Akers, On model equations for gravity-capillary waves, PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2008) pdf

Collaborators

Paul Milewski

Onno Bokhove

Andrew Belmonte

David Nicholls

Jerry Bona