Water wave solutions of the coupled system Zakharov-Kuznetsov and generalized coupled KdV equations.
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SUBMITTER: Seadawy AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4211322 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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