Reflections from solitary waves in channels of decreasing depth

DOI10.1017/S0022112085001112zbMath0584.76024MaRDI QIDQ3707618

Alan C. Newell, C. J. Knickerbocker

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

reflected waveperturbed Korteweg-de Vries equationapproximation for the right-going profilemass-flux conservation lawsregion of slowly changing depthright-going solitary wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99)

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Applications of KdV ⋮ Obliquely incident surface waves in shallow water of slowly varying depth ⋮ Hamiltonian models for the propagation of irrotational surface gravity waves over a variable bottom ⋮ Solitons, solitary waves, and voidage disturbances in gas-fluidized beds ⋮ A Korteweg-de Vries description of dark solitons in polariton superfluids ⋮ Weakly nonlinear waves in water of variable depth: variable-coefficient Korteweg-de Vries equation ⋮ The Classical Problem of Water Waves: a Reservoir of Integrable and Nearly-Integrable Equations ⋮ Auto-Bäcklund transformation, Lax pairs, and Painlevé property of a variable coefficient Korteweg–de Vries equation. I ⋮ Asymptotic Methods for Weakly Nonlinear and Other Water Waves ⋮ A note on the wave propagation in water of variable depth ⋮ An auto-Bäcklund transformation and exact solutions to a generalized KdV equation with variable coefficients and their applications ⋮ Propagation of axi-symmetric nonlinear shallow water waves over slowly varying depth ⋮ Propagation of solitary waves in channels of decreasing depth ⋮ Coastal Kelvin waves in the presence of a slowly varying topography ⋮ A note on an asymptotic solution of the cylindrical Korteweg-de Vries equation. ⋮ Shear fronts in slowly varying media

Cites Work

• Shelves and the Korteweg-de Vries equation
• On the Korteweg—de Vries equation for a gradually varying channel
• On an asymptotic solution of the Korteweg–de Vries equation with slowly varying coefficients
• The solitary wave in water of variable depth
• The solitary wave in water of variable depth. Part 2
• Amplification and decay of long nonlinear waves

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