Transcritical flow of a stratified fluid over an obstacle, or through a contraction, can be modeled by the forced Korteweg-de Vries equation, which describes a balance among weak nonlinearity, weak dispersion, and small forcing effects. Here we seek steady solutions with constant but different amplitudes upstream and downstream of the forcing region. Our interest is in the case when the forcing has negative polarity, which represents a hole. The effects of the width of the hole and the amplitude of the hole on these steady solutions are investigated.
Transcritical flow of a stratified fluid over an obstacle is often modeled by the forced Korteweg-de Vries equation, which describes a balance among weak nonlinearity, weak dispersion, and small forcing effects. However, in some special circumstances, it is necessary to add an additional cubic nonlinear term, so that the relevant model is the forced extended Korteweg-de Vries equation. Here we seek steady solutions with constant, but different amplitudes upstream and downstream of the forcing region. Our main interest is in the case when the forcing has negative polarity, which represents a hole. The effects of the width of the hole and the amplitude of the hole on these steady solutions are then investigated.
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