ISSN:
1573-0840
Keywords:
Bore
;
undular bore
;
hydraulic jump
;
KdV-Burgers equation
;
nonlinear and dispersive wave with energy dissipation
;
riverwall planning
;
breaking waves
;
phase plane method
;
Runge-Kutta-Gill's method
;
amplification of tsunami soliton dispersion
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
,
Geography
,
Geosciences
Notes:
Abstract At time of the 1983 Japan Sea tsunami, waves in the form of a bore ascended many rivers. In some cases, bores had the form of one initial wave with a train of smaller waves, and in other cases, such a wave train did not appear and only a step with a flat water surface behind was observed. In the present study, it is clarified that both undular-type and nonundular-type bores can be recognized as solutions of the KdV-Burger's equation which was introduced by Johnson in 1972. Numerically obtained analytical solutions and results of laboratory experiments are compared.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00162791
