Hydrodynamics of lakes. (Summer Course held at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) in Udine, Italy, 1983) (Q796369)

The purpose of this monograph is to summarize current understanding of large scale water circulation in lakes and to outline the methodologies by which this understanding has been aquired. The intention is to provide the necessary background for the analysis of transport of water and particulate matter, to present the theoretical and computational methods of solutions, and to establish a thorough interrelationship between theoretically deduced results and observations. Apart from presenting the fundamentals of continuum physics that apply to large scale motion of a fluid in a basin on the rotating Earth, the book contains presentations of basin wide wave dynamics, nonlinear wave action, precise studies of the vertical current structure, detailed investigations of barotropic and baroclinic current forecast modelling as well as an account of the history of physical limnology. A quick glance through the table of contents will show that the book will be useful not only to pyhsical limnologists, but equally also to oceanographers, meteorologists, fluid dynamicists, physicists and applied mathematicians with an interest in environmental or geophysical fluid dynamics. Because its content is fairly coherent, it may also serve as a basic text for a general course in lake hydrodynamics. Lectures were given by \textit{K. Hutter,} Fundamental equations and approximations (pp. 2-38); Linear gravity waves, Kelvin waves and Poincaré waves, Theoretical modelling and observations (pp. 39-80); by \textit{L. A. Mysak,} Topographic waves in lakes (pp. 81-128); Nonlinear internal waves (pp. 129-152); by \textit{N. S. Heaps,} Vertical structure of current in homogeneous and stratified waters (pp. 153-208); by \textit{J. Sündermann,} Numerical modelling of barotropic circulation processes (pp. 209-234); by \textit{J. Kielmann} and \textit{T. J. Simons,} Some aspects of baroclinic circulation models (pp. 235-286); by \textit{C. H. Mortimer,} Measurements and models in physical limnology (pp. 287-329).