Steep Solitary Waves in Water of Finite Depth with Constant Vorticity

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 274, Issue , 1994, Pages 339-348

  Vanden Broeck, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DEPTH; SHEAR FLOW; SOLITARY WAVES;

CONSTANT; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; SOLITARY; VORTICITY; WAVES;

ACCELERATION; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; FLOW OF WATER; GRAVITATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW; STEEP SOLITARY WAVES; VORTICITY; WAVE CREST;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 0028668193     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112094002144     Document Type: Article

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