Topographic waves in a stratified elliptical basin, with application to the Lake of Lugano

DOI10.1098/RSTA.1985.0055zbMath0594.76104OpenAlexW2049856454MaRDI QIDQ3725786

Kolumban Hutter, G. Salvadè, T. Scheiwiller, L. A. Mysak

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1985.0055

zbMATH Keywords

variational methodscale analysisrotational modestwo-layer fluid modelLake of Luganointerfacial displacementbarotropic modesbarotropic stream functionelliptically shaped basinexistence of topographic wavesexponential depth profilefree, elliptically travelling wavesfree, fundamental-mode topographic wavelinearized potential vorticity equationstratified, elongated laketwo-layer internal Rossby radius of deformationwind generation of topographic waveswind stress forcing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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