Attenuated wave-induced drift in a viscous rotating ocean

DOI10.1017/S0022112083002311zbMath0578.76018OpenAlexW2109553139MaRDI QIDQ3701044

Jan Erik H. Weber

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112083002311

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian descriptionMean drift currentssecondary mean flowspatially periodic surface wavestime-decaying Stokes driftviscous rotating fluid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05)

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