Why is a water wave like a grandfather clock?
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 22 (9) , 1828
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.862789
Abstract
The orbital motion of particles at the surface of a steep gravity wave consists very nearly of a uniform translation superposed on the backward swing of a pendulum.Keywords
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- Computer extension and analytic continuation of Stokes’ expansion for gravity wavesJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 1974