eprintid: 1392316 rev_number: 39 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/39/23/16 datestamp: 2013-05-08 08:14:05 lastmod: 2021-09-19 22:25:53 status_changed: 2013-05-08 08:14:05 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Grimshaw, RHJ creators_name: Helfrich, KR creators_name: Johnson, ER title: Experimental study of the effect of rotation on large amplitude internal waves ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 divisions: F59 note: © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC abstract: Nonlinear internal waves are commonly observed in the coastal ocean. In the weakly nonlinear long wave régime, they are often modeled by the Korteweg-de Vries equation, which predicts that the long-time outcome of generic localised initial conditions is a train of internal solitary waves. However, when the effect of background rotation is taken into account, it is known from several theoretical and numerical studies that the formation of solitary waves is inhibited, and instead nonlinear wave packets form. In this paper, we report the results from a laboratory experiment at the LEGI-Coriolis Laboratory which describes this process. date: 2013 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4805092 vfaculties: VMPS oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_manual elements_source: Manually entered elements_id: 867759 doi: 10.1063/1.4805092 lyricists_name: Grimshaw, Roger lyricists_name: Johnson, Edward lyricists_id: RHJGR32 lyricists_id: ERJOH80 full_text_status: public publication: Physics of Fluids volume: 25 article_number: 056602 issn: 1070-6631 citation: Grimshaw, RHJ; Helfrich, KR; Johnson, ER; (2013) Experimental study of the effect of rotation on large amplitude internal waves. Physics of Fluids , 25 , Article 056602. 10.1063/1.4805092 <https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4805092>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1392316/1/GrimshawHJ13.pdf