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Quarterly of Applied Mathematics

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Effects of empirical dissipation terms in the solution of the undular bore


Author: John G. B. Byatt-Smith
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 28 (1971), 499-515
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/99773
MathSciNet review: QAM99773
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Abstract: In this paper we consider the problem of a steady bore running downhill. The effects of dissipation are included empirically, using the Chézy law. The method of solution is based on an averaging technique which assumes that the uniform solution is slowly varying.


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