| Abstract: | Using the example of surface waves in a heavy liquid, the article discusses the propagation of a solitary wave in a nonhomogeneous medium. Ananalysis is made of processes of the decomposition of a wave into solitary waves, as a function of differences in the depth.Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 6, pp. 80–85, November–December, 1971.The author thanks A. V. Gaponov, A. G. Litvak, and L. A. Ostrovskii for their evaluation of the results of the work. |
