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The second approximation to cnoidal and solitary waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

E. V. Laitone
E. V. Laitone
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University of California, Berkeley
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Abstract

The expansion method introduced by Friedrichs (1948) for the systematic development of shallow-water theory for water waves of large wavelength was used by Keller (1948) to obtain the first approximation for the finite-amplitude solitary wave of Boussinesq (1872) and Rayleigh (1876), as well as for periodic waves of permanent type, corresponding to the cnoidal waves of Korteweg & de Vries (1895).

The present investigation extends Friedrich's method so as to include terms up to the fourth order from shallow-water theory for a flat horizontal bottom, and thereby obtains the complete second approximations to both cnoidal and solitary waves. These second approximations show that, unlike the first approximation, the vertical motions cannot be considered as negligible, and that the pressure variation is no longer hydrostatic.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , November 1960, pp. 430 - 444
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© 1960 Cambridge University Press

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