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On waves at an interface between two liquids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

P. F. Rhodes-Robinson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract

In this paper it is shown that a class of linearized interface-wave problems for two superposed inviscid liquids of unequal densities occupying regions which are symmetric about the interface can be reduced to a surface-wave problem in the lower region together with a classical hydrodynamical problem for potential flow in the lower region under a plane lid. The effect of interfacial tension is included. Examples of fundamental singularities in two semi-infinite liquids are given.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1980

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