Weakly nonlinear waves in a stratified fluid: a variational formulation

DOI10.1017/S0022112086001830MaRDI QIDQ3030519zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors John Miles

Publication date 1986

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112086001830

zbMATH Keywords

internal wavesLagrangian for gravity wavesN-layer, inviscid stratified fluidset of generalized coordinatesstanding interfacial wavestwo- layer Boussinesq model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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