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" Wave interactions and fluid flows / "
Alex D.D. Craik.
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BL
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630761
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| Main Entry
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Craik, Alex D. D.
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Wave interactions and fluid flows /\ Alex D.D. Craik.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1985.
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Cambridge monographs on mechanics and applied mathematics
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xii, 322 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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0521267404
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: 9780521267403
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-318) and index.
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| Contents
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Linear wave interactions -- Flows with piecewise-constant density and velocity -- Stability of an interface -- A three-layer model -- An energy criterion -- Viscous dissipation -- Flows with constant density and continuous velocity profile -- Stability of constant-density flows -- Critical layers and wall layers -- Flows with density stratification and piecewise-constant velocity -- Continuously-stratified flows -- Vortex sheet with stratification -- Over-reflection and energy flux -- The influence of boundaries -- Flows with continuous profiles of density and velocity -- Unbounded shear layers -- Bounded shear layers -- The critical layer in inviscid stratified flow -- Diffusive effects -- Models of mode coupling -- Model dispersion relations -- Mode conversion in inhomogeneous media -- Eigenvalue spectra and localized disturbances -- The temporal eigenvalue spectrum -- The spatial eigenvalue spectrum -- Evolution of localized disturbances -- Introduction to nonlinear theory -- Introduction to nonlinear theory -- Introductory remarks -- Description of a general disturbance -- Review of special cases -- Waves and mean flows -- Spatially-periodic waves in channel flows -- The mean-flow equations -- Particular solutions -- The viscous wall layer -- Spatially-periodic waves on deformable boundaries -- The Eulerian drift velocity of water waves -- 'Swimming' of a wavy sheet -- Modulated wave-packets -- Waves in viscous channel flows -- Waves on a free surface -- Wave propagation in inhomogeneous media -- Wave action and energy.
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Fluid dynamics.
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Wave-motion, Theory of.
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TA357.C73 1985
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