Conjugate flows and amplitude bounds for internal solitary waves

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-178

  Makarenko, N I ^a,b   Maltseva, J L ^a,b   Maltseva, A Yu ^a  

^a LAVRENTYEV INSTITUTE OF HYDRODYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; INTERNAL WAVE; NONLINEAR WAVE; SOLITARY WAVE; STRATIFIED FLOW; STRATIFIED FLUID; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77949431732     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-16-169-2009     Document Type: Article

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