G Eilenberger 1981 Berlin: Springer viii + 192 pp price DM56 Solitary waves on the surface of linear channels have been long known. First described in the literature a century ago – the best known example being the Severn bore – they are now generically termed 'solitons'.
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R.H. Dalitz (1982) studied this question.