Output details
14 - Civil and Construction Engineering
University of Dundee
Article title
Shear-induced breaking of large internal solitary waves
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Article number
-
Volume number
620
Issue number
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First page of article
129
ISSN of journal
0022-1120
Year of publication
2009
URL
-
Number of additional authors
4
Additional information
The paper resulted from an EPSRC grant (GR/S27368/01) under its Physics-Engineering Programme. It reports the results of a collaborative modelling study with the University of Oslo that demonstrated, for the first time, (i) the inadequacy of the Richardson number as a sole indicator of the shear stability of fully-nonlinear, internal solitary waves in a 3 layer, stably-stratified fluid and (ii) experimental verification of the stability predictions of a fully nonlinear mathematical analysis.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
A - Environment
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
