solitary waves
On the generation of solitary waves observed by Cluster in the near-Earth magnetosheath
... static solitary waves in the near-Earth magnetosheath, auro- ral zone/near-Earth plasma sheet and magnetopause (Pickett et ...magnetosheath solitary waves are of partic- ular interest because ...
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Spectral methods for internal waves: indistinguishable density profiles and double-humped solitary waves
... humped solitary waves, generalizing the asymptotic results of Makarenko et ...such waves (unlike the standard al- gorithm for internal solitary waves) determines the upstream density ...
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The characteristics of billows generated by internal solitary waves
... internal solitary waves is studied by means of a combined laboratory and numerical ...The waves are generated in the laboratory by a lock exchange mechanism and they are simulated numerically via a ...
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The steady state form of large amplitude internal solitary waves
... observed solitary waves with trapped constant density cores, although in this case the core could be due to the generation mechanisms used in the ...observed waves with trapped cores but no density ...
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Structure and dynamics of solitary waves in fluid media
... Internal waves in the oceans and atmosphere have been under intense experimental and theoretical studies for the last thirty years or even more (see reviews by (Ostrovsky & Stepanyants, 1989) and (Grimshaw, ...
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Internal solitary waves: propagation, deformation and disintegration
... internal solitary wave of depression is generated in the deep water and propagates shorewards until it reaches a critical ...internal solitary waves of elevation riding on a negative ...internal ...
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On the three-dimensional configuration of electrostatic solitary waves
... 3-D solitary waves (even time- independent) within the framework of the kinetic approach requires significantly more effort in comparison with 1-D ...
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Variational modelling of extreme waves through oblique interaction of solitary waves: application to Mach reflection
... Abstract. In this work, we model extreme waves that oc- cur due to Mach reflection through the intersection of two obliquely incident solitary waves. For a given range of in- cident angles and ...
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BGK electron solitary waves: 1D and 3D
... decades, solitary poten- tial structures have been observed in many dynamical regions of the Earth’s magnetosphere: the plasma sheet boundary (Matsumoto et ...these solitary waves play in the ...
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Modelling internal solitary waves on the Australian North West Shelf
... and solitary waves on the Australian North West Shelf ...nonlinear waves of solitary and bore- like shapes were observed during the two decades of his most productive work in this region ...
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Blow-up phenomena and stability of solitary waves for a generalized Dullin-Gottwald-Holm equation
... Recently, the DGH equation has been studied by many authors. Tian et al. [] studied the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem and the scattering problem for the DGH equation. In [], Hakkaev proved the orbital stability ...
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Effect of Plateau Length on the Transformation of Internal Solitary Waves
... Internal solitary waves (ISW) have been observed in the oceans and received attentions in the past decade. Strong ramification induced by the ISW not only influence on the marine ecology but also marine ...
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Finite Larmor radius influence on MHD solitary waves
... In this paper, stationary localized travelling wave solutions (solitary waves, or “solitons”) for models representing dis- persive extensions of MHD models, have been discussed. Focus has been on extending ...
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Conjugate flows and amplitude bounds for internal solitary waves
... The Froude numbers Eq. (22) also define all piece-wise constant flows which can be conjugated with another parallel flow. This fact follows immediately from the exact mass, momentum and energy relations. Existence of ...
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Shear induced breaking of large internal solitary waves
... single solitary wave of depression was generated and propagated into the main section of the ...rank-ordered solitary waves may be expected to develop, according to the inverse scattering theory, ...
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Automatic Waveform Selection method for Electrostatic Solitary Waves
... Electrostatic Solitary Waves (ESW) in the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer (PSBL) by using the Wave-Form Capture receiver (WFC), which was newly designed for collecting waveforms of elec- tric and magnetic ...
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Energetics of internal solitary waves in a background sheared current
... internal waves in the presence of a background sheared current is explored via numerical simulations for four different situations based on oceano- graphic conditions: the nonlinear interaction of two internal ...
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Numerical simulation of shear induced instabilities in internal solitary waves
... A numerical method that employs a combination of contour advection and pseudo- spectral techniques is used to simulate shear-induced instabilities in an internal solitary wave. A three-layer configuration for the ...
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Slow solitary waves in multi-layered magnetic structures
... a solitary wave in the multi-layered con- figuration differs only slightly from the BO algebraic ...about solitary waves in coronal loops with a thin ...the solitary wave, so that its ...
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A model for large-amplitude internal solitary waves with trapped cores
... internal solitary waves produced from a lock-exchange and found that large waves could have regions of u > ...duced waves of depression) show that u/c ≈ 1 in the upper water column as shown ...
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