The trapping and scattering of topographic waves by estuaries and headlands

DOI10.1017/S0022112091001192zbMath0717.76024OpenAlexW2064015441MaRDI QIDQ5749016

Thomas F. Stocker, E. R. Johnson

Publication date: 1991

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112091001192

zbMATH Keywords

estuary mouthsbarotropic wavescoastal shelvesLaurentian channelScotian shelfshelf-headland systemsub-inertial trapped modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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Cites Work

• Topographic waves in rectangular basins
• Rectangular resonators on infinite and semi-infinite channels
• A conformal-mapping technique for topographic-wave problems: semi-infinite channels and elongated basins

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