Ring waves on the surface of shear flows: a linear and nonlinear theory

DOI10.1017/S0022112090002592zbMATH Open0698.76016MaRDI QIDQ3476434FDOQ3476434

Authors: R. S. Johnson 

Publication date: 1990

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

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• Nonlinear ring waves in a two-layer fluid

zbMATH Keywords

Korteweg-de Vries equationconcentric KdV equationboundary-layer profilecritical-layer solutionpropagation of a ring wavesmall-amplitude long-wave theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

Cites Work

• Water waves and Korteweg–de Vries equations
• Wave formation in laminar flow down an inclined plane
• A New Class of Nonlinear Waves in Parallel Flows
• The solitary wave on a stream with an arbitrary distribution of vorticity
• Shallow water waves on shear flows
• Surface waves in flowing water
• On the nonlinear critical layer below a nonlinear unsteady surface wave
• Gravity waves over a non-uniform flow

Cited In (21)

• On the nonlinear critical layer below a nonlinear unsteady surface wave
• A note on the propagation of circular fronts into still water
• Long ring waves in a stratified fluid over a shear flow
• Nonlinear ring waves in a two-layer fluid
• Nonlinear concentric water waves of moderate amplitude
• Localized wave structures: solitons and beyond
• Observation of surface wave patterns modified by sub-surface shear currents
• Propagation of axi-symmetric nonlinear shallow water waves over slowly varying depth
• Wavefronts and modal structure of long surface and internal ring waves on a parallel shear current
• Ship waves on uniform shear current at finite depth: wave resistance and critical velocity
• Internal ring waves in a three-layer fluid on a current with a constant vertical shear
• Waves from an oscillating point source with a free surface in the presence of a shear current
• Asymptotic Methods for Weakly Nonlinear and Other Water Waves
• Oblique waves on a vertically sheared current are rotational
• Weakly nonlinear transient waves on a shear current: ring waves and skewed Langmuir rolls
• Simulation of surface gravity waves in the Dyachenko variables on the free boundary of flow with constant vorticity
• On vorticity waves propagating in a waveguide formed by two critical layers
• Models for the formation of a critical layer in water wave propagation
• Long nonlinear surface waves in the presence of a variable current
• Surface waves on shear currents: solution of the boundary-value problem
• Solitons and lumps in the cylindrical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation. I: Axisymmetric solitons and their stability

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