On Gerstner’s Water Wave

By David Henry. 2008

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Abstract We present a simple approach showing that Gerstner’s flow is dynamically possible: each particle moves on a circle, but the particles never collide and fill out the entire region below the surface wave.

Subfields: Oceanography, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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