Kelvin waves in the nonlinear shallow water equations on the sphere: nonlinear travelling waves and the corner wave bifurcation

DOI10.1017/S0022112008003959zbMath1155.76013MaRDI QIDQ3601018

John P. Boyd, Cheng Zhou

Publication date: 9 February 2009

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

zbMATH Keywords

perturbation theory; wave dispersion; Earth's sphericity; Fourier/Newton iteration/continuation method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

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