Laboratory experiments on depression interfacial solitary waves over a trapezoidal obstacle with horizontal plateau

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 800-818

  Cheng, Ming Hung ^a   Hsu, John R C ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Horizontal plateau; Interfacial solitary wave; Internal hydraulic jump; Laboratory experiments; Turning point; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL HYDRAULIC; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SOLITARY WAVE; TURNING POINTS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULIC JUMP; LABORATORIES; OCEANOGRAPHY; TURNING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SOLITONS;

FLOW FIELD; INTERNAL WAVE; SOLITARY WAVE; SUBMARINE PLATEAU; SUBMARINE SLOPE; TURBULENT MIXING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953139650     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2010.02.016     Document Type: Article

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