Internal-Wave Solitons of Fluids with Finite Depth
- 23 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 43 (4) , 264-266
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.43.264
Abstract
A nonlinear internal wave equation that describes stratified fluids with finite depth has been studied. -soliton solutions were found through Hirota's method. Although the equation tends to either the Korteweg-de Vries equation or the Benjamin-Ono equation in the shallow- or deep-fluid limit, respectively, the -soliton solutions obtained tend to the Korteweg-de Vries solitons in the shallow-fluid limit but do not tend to the Benjamin-Ono solitons in the deep-fluid limit. Therefore, there is no smooth transition from one kind of soliton to another with varying depth of the fluid.
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