Geometric focusing of internal waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112095003582zbMath0854.76025OpenAlexW2120437238MaRDI QIDQ4881479

Frans-Peter A. Lam, Leo R. M. Maas

Publication date: 9 June 1996

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112095003582

zbMATH Keywords

second-order hyperbolic equationbilliard gamelinear monochromatic internal waveswebs of characteristics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Attractors and repellers of smooth dynamical systems and their topological structure (37C70) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45)

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Cites Work

• Construction of internal wave solutions via a certain functional equation

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