Breaking of shoaling internal solitary waves

DOI10.1017/S002211201000248XzbMath1205.76067MaRDI QIDQ3075725

K. G. Lamb, Leon Boegman, Payam Aghsaee

Publication date: 17 February 2011

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

internal wavesstratified flowstopographic effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25)

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