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Wave Motion

Volume 6, Issue 1, January 1984, Pages 15-22
Wave Motion

Progressive surface waves on a liquid of non-uniform depth

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Abstract

The propagation of harmonic progressive waves on the surface of a homogeneous liquid of non-uniform depth is considered. Particular attention is devoted to the action of the Reynolds stresses in generating a mean or time-independent component in the flow.

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