On the realm of validity of strongly nonlinear asymptotic approximations for internal waves

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 549, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-23

  Camassa, R ^a   Choi, W ^b   Michallet, H ^c   Rusas P O ^d   Sveen, J K ^e  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c LEGI   (France)

^d ØSTFOLD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CALCULATIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EULER EQUATIONS; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; NONLINEAR ASYMPTOTIC APPROXIMATIONS; SHALLOW FLUIDS; SOLITARY WAVES;

GRAVITY WAVES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CALCULATIONS; GRAVITY WAVES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

GRAVITY WAVE; INTERNAL WAVE; SOLITARY WAVE;

EID: 33645462162     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112005007226     Document Type: Article

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