Topographic Waves in Channels and Lakes on the f-Plane
| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
1987.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 1987. |
| Colección: | Coastal and Estuarine Studies,
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50990-2 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Preamble
- 1.2 Waves in waters
- 1.3 Observations — Their interpretations
- 1.4 Aim of this work
- 2. Governing equations
- 2.1 Equations of adiabatic fluid flow
- 2.2 Vorticity, potential vorticity, topographic Rossby waves
- 2.3 Baroclinic coupling — the two-layer model
- 2.4 Continuous stratification
- 2.5 TW-equation in orthogonal coordinate systems
- 3. Some known solutions of the TW-equation in various domains
- 3.1 Circular basin with parabolic bottom
- 3.2 Circular basin with a power-law bottom profile
- 3.3 Elliptic basin with parabolic bottom
- 3.4 Elliptic basin with exponential bottom
- 3.5 Topographic waves in infinite domains
- 4. The Method of Weighted Residuals
- 4.1 Application to the TW-equation
- 4.2 Symmetrization
- 5. Topographic waves in infinite channels
- 5.1 Basic concept
- 5.2 Dispersion relation
- 5.3 Channel solutions
- 5.4 Velocity profiles
- 5.5 Alternative solution procedures
- 5.6 Hyperbolically curved channels
- 6. Topographic waves in rectangular basins
- 6.1 Crude lake model
- 6.2 Lake model with non-constant thalweg
- 7. Reflection of topographic waves
- 7.1 Reflection at a vertical wall
- 7.2 Reflection at an exponential shore
- 7.3 Reflection at a sin2-shore
- 8. Review and outlook: Review and outlook: Restrictions of this study — A list of unsolved problems
- 8.1 A brief summary
- 8.2 Validity of TW-equations
- 8.3 Single or multivalued dispersion relation
- 8.4 Bay-type modes
- 8.5 A list of unsolved problems
- 8.6 Measurements, observations
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- References
- Author Index.