title: Internal solitons in laboratory experiments: comparison with theoretical models.
abstract: Nonlinear internal solitary waves observed in laboratory experiments are discussed from the standpoint of their relation to different soliton theories, from the classical integrable models such as the Korteweg-de Vries, Gardner, Benjamin-Ono, and Joseph-Kubota-Ko-Dobbs equations and their modifications, through the nonintegrable models describing higher-order nonlinear effects, viscosity, rotation, and cylindrical spreading, to the strongly nonlinear models. First, these theoretical models are briefly described and, then, laboratory data and their comparison with the theory are presented.
authors.affiliation: Zel Technologies/NOAA Environmental Research Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Ostrovsky
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Stepanyants
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001683:Biological Clocks / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D012107:Research Design