The phase configuration of the waves around an accelerating disturbance in a rotating stratified fluid
Abstract
Ray theory is extended to consider the case of an accelerating disturbance which is producing waves in a rotating stratified fluid. Starting from the equations of motion, dispersion relations are derived for surface gravity waves, capillary waves, Rossby waves and internal-inertial waves. The wave system is studied in each case for the problem of a body starting impulsively from rest and for a body starting from rest and moving with constant acceleration.
- Publication:
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Wave Motion
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1983WaMot...5..157W
- Keywords:
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- Flow Theory;
- Rotating Fluids;
- Stratified Flow;
- Water Waves;
- Wave Propagation;
- Capillary Waves;
- Flow Equations;
- Gravity Waves;
- Planetary Waves;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer