Coastal Kelvin waves in the presence of a slowly varying topography

DOI10.1017/S0022112091003403zbMath0728.76020OpenAlexW2132641275MaRDI QIDQ3352701

Ping Chang

Publication date: 1991

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112091003403

zbMATH Keywords

evolution equationadvection equationperturbed Korteweg-de Vries equationslowly varying topographyf-plane oceanresidual massweak transverse variationsweakly nonlinear coastal Kelvin wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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Cites Work

• Reflections from solitary waves in channels of decreasing depth
• Shelves and the Korteweg-de Vries equation
• On the Korteweg—de Vries equation for a gradually varying channel
• On an asymptotic solution of the Korteweg–de Vries equation with slowly varying coefficients
• Nonlinear Kelvin and continental-shelf waves
• Kelvin waves on oceanic boundaries
• Kelvin-wave diffraction by changes in depth

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