Strong dispersive effects on internal nonlinear waves in a sheared, stably stratified fluid layer

Wave Motion

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-173

  Zimmerman, William B ^a   Velarde, Manuel G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISPERSION (WAVES); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

COUETTE SHEAR; INTERNAL NONLINEAR WAVES; KORTEWEG-DE VRIES EQUATION (KDV); STRATIFIED FLUID LAYERS;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 0032596015     PISSN: 01652125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-2125(99)00004-9     Document Type: Article

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