Attenuated wave-induced drift in a viscous rotating ocean

DOI10.1017/S0022112083002311zbMath0578.76018MaRDI QIDQ3701044

Jan Erik H. Weber

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112083002311

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian description; Mean drift currents; secondary mean flow; spatially periodic surface waves; time-decaying Stokes drift; viscous rotating fluid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

80A05: Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer

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