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Wave-induced vorticity in free-surface boundary layers: application to mass transport in edge waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

B. D. Dore
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Reading, Berkshire, England

Abstract

The time-averaged vorticity field within the free-surface boundary layer associated with a general class of propagating gravity waves is considered. The principal results are applied in a calculation of the mass transport velocity field for edge waves.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1975 Cambridge University Press

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