Internal gravity waves generated by oscillations of a sphere

DOI10.1017/S0022112087002714zbMath0638.76027OpenAlexW2168310435MaRDI QIDQ3779870

J. C. Appleby, David G. Crighton

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112087002714

zbMATH Keywords

Boussinesq approximationnon-Boussinesq effectsspherical bodypulsating spherestratified incompressible fluidfar-field wave frontsMatched expansionsnear-field solutionradiation of internal gravity waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application (35Q99) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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