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Forced vertical oscillations in a viscous stratified fluid
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
Abstract
The linear fluid dynamics is considered when infinite vertical boundaries are set in oscillatory vertical motion. The case of exponential stratification with constant kinematic viscosity is explicitly studied. When the forcing frequency equals the Brunt–Vaisälä frequency for the fluid, the customary boundary layers are absent in the steady-state oscillation, however small be the kinematic viscosity; for a semi-infinite fluid the corresponding horizontal extent of the region influenced by the boundary motion is then of the order of the stratification length. The sign of the phase angle is everywhere dependent on whether the magnitude of the forcing frequency is greater than or less than that of the Brunt–Vaisäla frequency.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 66 , Issue 3 , November 1969 , pp. 617 - 627
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1969
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