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solitary wave

[′säl·ə‚ter·ē ′wāv]

(physics)

A traveling wave in which a single disturbance is neither preceded by nor followed by other such disturbances, but which does not involve unusually large amplitudes or rapid changes in variables, in contrast to a shock wave.

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Wilson, 2008a: Turbulent mixing processes in atmospheric bores and solitary waves deduced from profiling systems and numerical simulation.

BORE-ING INTO NOCTURNAL CONVECTION

Yin, "Interaction of algebraic Rossby solitary waves with topography and atmospheric blocking," Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, vol.

3D Variable Coefficient KdV Equation and Atmospheric Dipole Blocking

To study the solitary waves at the critical region, the following stretching coordinates are as

Plasma Parameters Effects on Dust Acoustic Solitary Waves in Dusty Plasmas of Four Components

Figures 1 and 2 represent the solitary wave of the real part of E1(x, t) in (23) and N1(x, t) in (24), respectively, for -5 [less than or equal to] x [less than or equal to] 5, 0 [less than or equal to] t [less than or equal to] 1.

Soliton Solutions of the Coupled Schrodinger-Boussinesq Equations for Kerr Law Nonlinearity

Cuevas, "Travelling solitary waves in the discrete Schrodinger equation with saturable nonlinearity: existence, stability and dynamics," Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, vol.

Periodic Travelling Wave Solutions of Discrete Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations

Shape of Solitary Waves for the Higher Order Approximation.

Around Chaotic Disturbance and Irregularity for Higher Order Traveling Waves

Sediment resuspension and nepheloid layers induced by long internal solitary waves shoaling orthogonally on uniform slopes.

The impact of seasonal changes in stratification on the dynamics of internal waves in the Sea of Okhotsk

First of all, there exist three types of nonlinear solitary waves in view of the envelopes: sinusoidal (lower left panel), sawtooth (upper right panel), and spiky/bipolar (lower right panel).

Plasma brain dynamics (PBD): a mechanism for EEG waves under human consciousness

Numerical results of the Rosenau-KdV equation are obtained for four test problems: the motion of single solitary wave, interaction of two and three solitary waves, evolution of solitons with undular bore initial condition.

Numerical Study of Rosenau-KdV Equation Using Finite Element Method Based on Collocation Approach

The interaction of two solitary waves. In the second test problem, we investigate the interaction of two positive solitary waves by using the following initial condition