Weakly nonlinear internal gravity wavepackets

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 569, Issue , 2006, Pages 249-258

  Sutherland, Bruce R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

NONLINEAR INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVEPACKETS; PARAMETRIC SUBHARMONIC INSTABILITY; WAVE-INDUCED MEAN FLOW;

WATER WAVES;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; WATER WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVE;

EID: 33751033165     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112006003016     Document Type: Article

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