A Computational Method for Solitary Internal Waves in a Continuously Stratified Fluid

DOI10.1002/sapm199185293zbMath0728.76026MaRDI QIDQ3352705

Bruce Turkington, Sheng Wang, Alexander Eydeland

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/sapm199185293

zbMATH Keywords

iterative algorithm; incompressible fluid; Euler equations; weakly nonlinear long waves; stable density stratification; large-amplitude solutions; solitary internal waves; steady, translational nonlinear waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B25: Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

76B55: Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

35Q51: Soliton equations

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

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