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Energy intensity of inertial waves in a sphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

W. W. Wood
W. W. Wood
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Department of Mathematics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052.
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The decay at large wavenumbers of the energy density in an inertial wave generated in a sphere by an arbitrary initial disturbance is determined as a first step to a comparison with the general theory of Phillips [17] for a statistically steady field of random inertial waves in an arbitrary cavity.

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Research Article
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The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , October 1983 , pp. 145 - 160
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1983

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