The effect of a background shear current on large amplitude internal solitary waves

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Choi, Wooyoung ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear equations; Shear flow; Solitons; Stratified flow; Vortices

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SOLITONS; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

INTERNAL SOLITARY WAVES; LINEAR SHEAR CURRENT; STRATIFIED FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SHEAR FLOW; SOLITONS; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33645469631     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2180291     Document Type: Article

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