Internal solitary waves: propagation, deformation and disintegration

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics. 2010. Vol. 17. No. 6. P. 633–649.

Grimshaw R., Pelinovsky E., Talipova T., Kurkina O. E.

In coastal seas and straits, the interaction of barotropic tidal currents with the continental shelf, seamounts or sills is often observed to generate large-amplitude, horizontally propagating internal solitary waves. Typically these waves occur in regions of variable bottom topography, with the consequence that they are often modeled by nonlinear evolution equations of the Korteweg-de Vries type with
variable coecients. We shall review how these models are used to describe the propagation, deformation and disintegration of internal solitary waves as they propagate over the continental shelf and slope.

Keywords: деформация, wave propagation, распространение волн, solitary waves, deformation, disintegration, уединенные волны, распад, ветровые, длинные неприливные и внутренние волны