Wave action on currents with vorticity

DOI10.1017/S0022112099004565zbMath0930.76015MaRDI QIDQ4267305

Benjamin S. White

Publication date: 14 February 2000

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

zbMATH Keywords

WKB methodray theorywave crestsequation for spatially varying phase shiftprinciple of conservation of wave action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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