The resonant interaction of a submarine's wake with a stratified fluid
By:  Joseph A. Kowalewski
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from the National Technical Information Service
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
Description: Through the use of asymptotic and perturbation methods, this thesis presents a theoretical study of the flow of a stratified fluid over variable topography as a model of the resonant interaction of a submarine's wake with a stratified fluid. Such resonant interactions may be able to produce significant upstream disturbances. The long time solution obtained in our model exhibits growth in time for the resonant case, indicating that perhaps nonlinear effects, balanced by dispersion, could allow the possibility of detecting a submarine by the internal waves its wake generates in the resonant case.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): Frenzen, Christopher L.

"June 1993."

Thesis (M.S. in Applied Math) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1993.

Bibliography: p. 64.

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