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Internal wave motion in a non-homogeneous viscous fluid of variable depth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

B. D. Dore
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Reading

Abstract

A method of solution is given to the problem of internal wave motion in a non-homogeneous viscous fluid of variable depth. The approach is based on the inviscid theory of Keller and Mow(l) and on boundary-layer analysis. For internal progressive waves in uniform depths, it reduces essentially to the theory given by Dore(2). The present results are also applicable to surface waves when the fluid is homogeneous.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1971

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