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On the connection between Stokes drift and Darwin drift

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

I. EAMES
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University Walk, Bristol University, Bristol
M. E. McINTYRE
Affiliation:
Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, Cambridge

Abstract

Stokes and Darwin drift, for irrotational waves and flow past rigid bodies, are analysed in a general framework and shown to be fundamentally the same thing.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The Cambridge Philosophical Society 1999

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