Please look at these streamlines

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The discussion centers on the behavior of streamlines for solitary waves interacting with submerged objects. Participants express curiosity about the peculiarities of these streamlines and suggest that the upper part of the streamlines for a solitary wave without an object would resemble those with the object. The concept of boundary layers is introduced as an analytic method to understand this behavior in ordinary differential equations (ODEs).

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Hi all.
From the internet, I found the following picture for streamlines of a solitary wave passing a submersed object.
Do you find these streamlines strange?
And I guess the streamlines for a traveling solitary wave without such a submersed object shall be similar for the upper part?
 

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You are right... There is an analytic way to come with such behavior in ode's. It's called boundary layer.
 

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