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Conjugate flows and amplitude bounds for internal solitary waves
1Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
2Novosibirsk State University 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
Abstract. Amplitude bounds imposed by the conservation of mass, momentum and energy for strongly nonlinear waves in stratified fluid are considered. We discuss the theoretical scheme which allows to determine broadening limits for solitary waves in the terms of a given upstream density profile. Attention is focused on the continuously stratified flows having multiple broadening limits. The role of the mean density profile and the influence of fine-scale stratification are analyzed.
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Citation: Makarenko, N. I., Maltseva, J. L., and Kazakov, A. Yu.: Conjugate flows and amplitude bounds for internal solitary waves, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 16, 169-178, doi:10.5194/npg-16-169-2009, 2009. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
