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Modelling internal solitary waves on the Australian North West Shelf

Roger Grimshaw A , Efim Pelinovsky B , Yury Stepanyants B C and Tatiana Talipova B
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A Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, UK.

B Laboratory of Hydrophysics, Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

C Reactor Operations, ANSTO, Lucas Heights, Menai, NSW, 2234, Australia.

D Corresponding author. Email: yury.stepanyants@ansto.gov.au

Marine and Freshwater Research 57(3) 265-272 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF05016
Submitted: 7 February 2005  Accepted: 11 January 2006   Published: 1 May 2006

Abstract

The transformation of the non-linear internal tide and the consequent development of internal solitary waves on the Australian North West Shelf is studied numerically in the framework of the generalised rotation-modified Korteweg–de Vries equation. This model contains both non-linearity (quadratic and cubic), the Coriolis effect, depth variation and horizontal variability of the density stratification. The simulation results demonstrate that a wide variety of non-linear wave shapes can be explained by the synergetic action of non-linearity and the variability of the hydrology along the wave path.


Acknowledgment

The present study is supported by grants from ONR (RG), INTAS (03-51-3728 and 03-51-4286) and RFBR (03-05-64978 and 04-05-3900) (EP, TT).


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