The motion of an internal solitary wave of depression over a fixed bottom boundary in a shallow, two-layer fluid

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Carr, M ^a   Davies, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary layers; Flow instability; Flow separation; Jets; Solitons; Stratified flow

Indexed keywords

JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SOLITONS; STABILITY; UNSTEADY FLOW;

FLOW SEPARATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SOLITARY WAVE; STRATIFIED FLOW; TWO-LAYER FLUID; WAVE-INDUCED FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SOLITONS; STABILITY; UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 33645661039     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2162033     Document Type: Article

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