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A contribution to the theory of viscous damping of stratified wave flows

Beitrag zur Theorie viskoser Dämpfung geschichteter Wellenströmungen

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A boundary layer method is described for the calculation of viscous damping coefficients associated with small amplitude progressive waves propagating in non-homogeneous fluid. The analysis is formulated essentially in terms of the perturbation pressures and it is suggested that this procedure might be of use in a variety of wave damping calculations.

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Es wird eine Grenzschichtmethode zur Berechnung viskoser Dämpfungskoeffizienten beschrieben, die mit der Ausbreitung von Wellen kleiner Amplitude in nichthomogenen Flüssigkeiten verknüpft sind. Die Analyse wird vornehmlich in ausdrücken des Stördruckes formuliert. Es scheint, daß die angegebene Vorgangsweise bei vielerlei Berechnungen von Wellendämpfung von Nutzen sein dürfte.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Reading, Whiteknights Park, Reading, England

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Dore, B.D. A contribution to the theory of viscous damping of stratified wave flows. Acta Mechanica 8, 25–33 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01178531

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