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Transient gravity wave response to an oscillating pressure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

John W. Miles
Affiliation:
Department of Engineering and Institute of Geophysics, University of California, Los Angeles

Abstract

The gravity-wave response of a semi-infinite liquid to the oscillating pressure Pδ(x) exp (iwt) is given in an asymptotic form that is uniformly valid through the transition zone that separates the dispersion-controlled precursor and the monochromatic steady state. The same problem has been considered previously by Stoker (1957), but his initial conditions were spurious, and he did not seek a uniformly valid asymptotic representation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1962 Cambridge University Press

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