A centre manifold approach to solitary internal waves in a sheared, stably stratified fluid layer

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 110-114

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

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