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1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro-UFRJ, Programa de Engenharia Oceânica-COPPE, Centro de Tecnologia da UFRJ, Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, Cidade Universitária, 21941-611 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Abstract:
This work addresses the problem of weakly non linear ocean waves propagation in intermediate waters. We have shown that the propagation of waves similar to hole solitons, as well as progressive waves of high intensity multipeaks are likely to occur in this non linear regime. In addition, we note that along intermediate waters, these particular non-linear waves satisfy a wave equation model similar to Korteweg de Vries equation, and their propagation features strongly depend on the initial conditions adopted to the present problem.
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