Modelling the motion of an internal solitary wave over a bottom ridge in a stratified fluid

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 415-441

  Guo, Yakun ^a   Sveen, Johan Kristian ^b   Davies, Peter A ^a   Grue, John ^b   Ping, Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Internal solitary waves; Mixing; Stratification; Topography; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; INTERNAL WAVE; MODELING; SOLITARY WAVE; STRATIFIED FLUID; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 13844317485     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-005-0485-4     Document Type: Article

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