Hydraulic jump and undular bore formation on a shelf break
The evolution of the semidiurnal internal tide as it propagates across the Australian North West Shelf is discussed analytically. As the tide is of long wavelength and small amplitude, this evolution is described by a perturbed extended Korteweg-de Vries equation. It is found that the flow is domina...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of physical oceanography 1988-07, Vol.18 (7), p.947-962 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The evolution of the semidiurnal internal tide as it propagates across the Australian North West Shelf is discussed analytically. As the tide is of long wavelength and small amplitude, this evolution is described by a perturbed extended Korteweg-de Vries equation. It is found that the flow is dominated by nonlinearity, and hence is hydraulic, except in the neighborhood of any shocks predicted by hydraulic theory. Hydraulic theory predicts the formation of two shocks in each period of the tide. |
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ISSN: | 0022-3670 1520-0485 |
DOI: | 10.1175/1520-0485(1988)018<0947:HJAUBF>2.0.CO;2 |