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Surface waves in basins of variable depth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

John Miles
John Miles
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Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, La Jolla, California 92093
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Abstract

The linearized boundary-value problem for surface waves of frequency ω in a closed basin of variable depth is reduced to a non-self-adjoint partial differential equation in the plane of the free surface. The corresponding variational form (which does not provide a definite upper or lower bound) for the eigenvalue κ = ω2/g is constructed. A self-adjoint partial differential equation, for which the variational form is the Rayleigh quotient (which provides an upper bound to κ), also is constructed; it offers significant advantages vis-à-vis the non-self-adjoint formulation, but at the expense of a more complicated operator. Three relatively simple variational approximations are constructed, two for a class of basins with sloping sides and the third for basins for which the variation of the depth relative to its mean is small. These general results are illustrated by comparison with Rayleigh's (1899) results for a semicircular channel, Sen's (1927) inverse results for a family of circular basins, and Lamb's (1932) results for a shallow circular paraboloid. The eigenvalue for the dominant mode in the paraboloid is determined through O(δ5), where δ = depth/radius.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 152 , March 1985 , pp. 379 - 389
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© 1985 Cambridge University Press

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