Strongly nonlinear, simple internal waves in continuously-stratified, shallow fluids
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/4422As published
https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-18-91-2011DOI
10.5194/npg-18-91-2011Abstract
Strongly nonlinear internal waves in a layer with arbitrary stratification are considered in the hydrostatic approximation. It is shown that "simple waves" having a variable vertical structure can emerge from a wide class of initial conditions. The equations describing such waves have been obtained using the isopycnal coordinate as a variable. Emergence of simple waves from an initial Gaussian impulse is numerically investigated for different density profiles, from two- and three-layer structure to the continuous one. Besides the first mode, examples of second- and third-mode simple waves are given.
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© The Author(s), 2011. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. The definitive version was published in Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 18 (2011): 91-102, doi:10.5194/npg-18-91-2011.
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