The effect of weak shear on finite-amplitude internal solitary waves

DOI10.1017/S002211209900587XzbMath0978.76015OpenAlexW2045504534MaRDI QIDQ4951869

Simon R. Clarke, R. H. J. Grimshaw

Publication date: 4 September 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s002211209900587x

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityinstabilitygeneralized Korteweg-de Vries equationkinksinflection pointscharacteristic length scaleperiodic initial conditionuniformly stratified fluidamplitude representation of shear profiledispersionless boresfinite-amplitude internal solitary wavesfinite-amplitude long-wave equationweak current shear

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Soliton equations (35Q51)

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