Shear-induced breaking of large internal solitary waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112008004898zbMath1156.76313OpenAlexW2133857465MaRDI QIDQ3616194

Peter Davies, John Grue, Magda Carr, Atle Jensen, Dorian Fructus

Publication date: 24 March 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112008004898

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25)

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