The characteristics of billows generated by internal solitary waves

DOI10.1017/jfm.2016.823zbMath1383.76046OpenAlexW2568095388MaRDI QIDQ5364449

Magda Carr, Peter Davies, John Grue, James Franklin, Stuart E. King, David Gerard Dritschel

Publication date: 28 September 2017

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

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11156

zbMATH Keywords

internal wavesgeophysical and geological flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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