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A centre manifold approach to solitary waves in a sheared, stably stratified fluid layer
1Department of Chemical Engineering, UMIST, Sackville Street, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, England
2Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense, Paseo Juan XXIII, No. 1, Madrid 28040 Spain
Abstract. The centre manifold approach is used to derive an approximate equation for nonlinear waves propagating in a sheared, stably stratified fluid layer. The evolution equation matches limiting forms derived by other methods, including the inviscid, long wave approximation leading to the Korteweg- deVries equation. The model given here allows large modulations of the height of the waveguide. This permits the crude modelling of shear layer instabilities at the upper material surface of the waveguide which excite solitary internal waves in the waveguide. An energy argument is used to support the existence of these waves.
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Citation: Zimmerman, W. B. and Velarde, M. G.: A centre manifold approach to solitary waves in a sheared, stably stratified fluid layer, Nonlin. Processes Geophys., 3, 110-114, doi:10.5194/npg-3-110-1996, 1996. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
