Modulation of an internal gravity wave packet in a stratified shear flow

DOI10.1016/0165-2125(81)90013-5zbMath0488.76028MaRDI QIDQ1166361

R. H. J. Grimshaw

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Wave Motion (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-2125(81)90013-5

zbMATH Keywords

variable coefficient nonlinear Schrödinger equation; horizontal channel; weakly inhomogeneous; generalized Lagrangian-mean formulation; long wave resonance; transverse modulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

76B25: Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

76F10: Shear flows and turbulence

76B55: Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

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