A Global Theory of Internal Solitary Waves in Two-Fluid Systems

DOI10.2307/2000631zbMath0631.35029OpenAlexW3162368984MaRDI QIDQ3767729

Robert E. L. Turner, Charles J. Amick

Publication date: 1986

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2000631

zbMATH Keywords

solitary wavessolitonsquasilineartwo-fluid systemsemi-linearinternal surgespseudo-stream functionstreamlines with vertical tangents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32)

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