The effect of weak shear on finite-amplitude internal solitary waves

DOI10.1017/S002211209900587XMaRDI QIDQ4951869zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. R. Clarke, R. H. J. Grimshaw

Publication date 4 September 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s002211209900587x

zbMATH Keywords

amplitude representation of shear profilecharacteristic length scaledispersionless boresfinite-amplitude internal solitary wavesfinite-amplitude long-wave equationgeneralized Korteweg-de Vries equationinflection pointsinstabilitykinksperiodic initial conditionstabilityuniformly stratified fluidweak current shear

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55)

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