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An extended channel model for the prediction of motion in elongated homogeneous lakes. Part 3. Free oscillations in natural basins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

Gabriel Raggio
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology, The Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Kolumban Hutter
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology, The Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract

The extended channel model derived and analysed in two previous articles is further developed by investigating free oscillations and forced motion in natural enclosed basins. Firstly, a zeroth-order model is analysed. In this model, field variables are expressed as a product of a single known cross-sectional shape function and an unknown function of time and the co-ordinate along the lake axis. Conditions are discussed under which this zeroth-order model is meaningful, and it is shown that under normal circumstances Coriolis effects must be ignored. Subsequently the general Nth-order channel model is applied to the Lake of Lugano. It is shown that eigedrequencies and amphidromic systems are well predicted in such channel-like lakes. The paper ends with a discussion on the selection of shape functions and with further applications and limitations of the channel model.

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Research Article
Copyright
© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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