简介:Asystematicprocedureisproposedforobtainingsolutionsforsoli-tarywavesinstratifiedfluids.Thestratificationofthefluidisassumedtobeexpo-nentialorlinear.Itscomparisonwithexistingresultsforanexponentiallystratifiedfluidshowsagreement,anditisfoundthatfortheoddseriesofsolutionsthedirec-tionofdisplacementofthestreamlinesfromtheirasymptoticlevelsisreversedwhenthestratificationischangedfromexponentialtolinear.Finallytheinteractionofsolitarywavesisconsidered,andtheKorteweg-deVriesequationandtheBoussinesqequationarederived.Thustheknownsolutionsoftheseequationscanberehedupontoprovidetheanswerstotheinteractionproblem.