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Nonlinear internal gravity waves in a slowly varying medium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

R. Grimshaw
R. Grimshaw
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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Abstract

Nonlinear internal gravity waves in an inviscid incompressible fluid are discussed for the case when the properties of the medium vary slowly on a scale determined by the local wave structure. A two-time-scale technique is used to obtain transport equations which describe the slowly varying modulations of the waves. Various solutions of these transport equations are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , 25 July 1972 , pp. 193 - 207
Copyright
© 1972 Cambridge University Press

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