On the dissipation of interfacial and internal long gravity waves

Abstract

The Korteweg-deVries equations modified by viscosity for interfacial and internal long gravity waves between two parallel plates are derived in the paper. A method based on the inverse scattering method developed recently by Karpman and Maslov has been used to confirm the well-known inverse fourth power decay of the amplitude of a solitary wave on the one hand and to find the time evolution of its velocity on the other.