Stratified flows and dipole approximations (Q1185627)

The potential method is used to study internal waves behind an obstacle in a three-dimensional ideal incompressible exponentially stratified flow between two horizontal walls. A fundamental solution is constructed for the equations of motion in Boussinesq form, which satisfies the radiation conditions and the boundary conditions on the plane walls. Outside the semicylinder containing the perturbation source and aligned parallel to the flow axis, the wave field may be replaced, up to terms of higher order of smallness in the small parameters, by the wave field of a dipole whose moment is a linear function of the sum of the obstacle mass plus the added mass associated with the translational motion of the obstacle along the axis of symmetry parallel to the flow velocity.