Flow past a constriction in a channel: a modal description

DOI10.1017/S0022112091003610zbMath0749.76013MaRDI QIDQ3987791

G. G. Tomasson, W. K. Melville

Publication date: 28 June 1992

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

zbMATH Keywords

KdV equation; transcritical flow; long wave theory; nonlinear upstream waves; solitary-like waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M20: Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76B25: Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids

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