A second-order theory for solitary waves in shallow fluids

DOI10.1063/1.863994zbMATH Open0508.76035OpenAlexW2001958656MaRDI QIDQ4747760FDOQ4747760

Authors: John Anthony Gear, R. H. J. Grimshaw 

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863994

zbMATH Keywords

Korteweg-de Vries equationfree surfaceequilibrium positiontwo-layer fluidsmall-amplitudequadratic and cubic nonlinearitiessecond-order correctionamplitude expansioninversion layerdensity stratifiedshallow depthbasic shear flow linearBouissinesq approximationBrunt-Vaeisaelae frequency constantBrunt-Vaeisaelae frequency piecewise constantfirst order in amplitudeno basic shear

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) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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