Highest waves, phase speeds and particle trajectories of nonlinear capillary waves on sheets of fluid

DOI10.1017/S0022112086001866zbMath0616.76026MaRDI QIDQ4725914

S. John Hogan

Publication date: 1986

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112086001866

zbMATH Keywords

free surface; elliptic functions; drift velocity; elliptic integrals; capillary waves; phase speed; antisymmetric waves; mean displacement of a streamline; sheets of fluid; thin films on pipe walls; Trajectory properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

76B45: Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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