Steady Deep-Water Waves on a Linear Shear Current

DOI10.1002/sapm198573135zbMath0572.76022MaRDI QIDQ3690426

Philip G. Saffman, J. A. Simmen

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/242/1/Simmen_ja_1984.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier series; Numerical solutions; extreme waves; linear shear current; small amplitude waves; steady, periodic, deep-water gravity waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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