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The lee-wave régime for a slender body in a rotating flow. Part 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

John W. Miles
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of California, La Jolla

Abstract

The axisymmetric motion of an inviscid, rotating liquid over a prescribed stream surface, say S, is constructed from assumed values of the velocity and azimuthal vorticity on S. The hypothesis of unseparated flow, which implies continuity of the vorticity on S, is shown to imply that: (a) the azimuthal vorticity and azimuthal circulation (relative to the basic flow) must be simply proportional to the perturbation stream function in the exterior of S; (b) the exterior field exhibits a dipole behaviour far upstream of the body, thereby satisfying Long's hypothesis of no upstream disturbance.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1970 Cambridge University Press

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