A similarity solution for viscous internal waves
- 11 July 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 54 (3) , 495-506
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112072000837
Abstract
A similarity solution is presented which describes the internal waves generated by a simple-harmonic localized disturbance in a stably stratified viscous fluid. Some experimental results support the theoretical predictions for the waves in a linearly stratified salt solution.Keywords
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