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Lamb's theoretical formulations have found substantial practical application, especially in the field of non-destructive testing. The term Rayleigh–Lamb waves embraces the Rayleigh wave, a type of wave that propagates along a single surface. Both Rayleigh and Lamb waves are constrained by the elastic properties of the surface(s) that guide them.
Sir Horace Lamb FRS [3] (27 November 1849 – 4 December 1934 [4]) was a British applied mathematician and author of several influential texts on classical physics, among them Hydrodynamics (1895) and Dynamical Theory of Sound (1910). [5]
Inertia is the natural tendency of objects in motion to stay in motion and objects at rest to stay at rest, unless a force causes the velocity to change. It is one of the fundamental principles in classical physics , and described by Isaac Newton in his first law of motion (also known as The Principle of Inertia). [ 1 ]
Note that the inertia force is in front of the phase of the drag force: the flow velocity is a sine wave, while the local acceleration is a cosine wave as a function of time. In fluid dynamics the Morison equation is a semi- empirical equation for the inline force on a body in oscillatory flow.
It emphasises inertia through the portrayal of the distraction of Cromwell's horse by wayside fodder, which is also being eaten by a lamb from the farm: a reference to the concept of the Christian flock. The wandering piglets following a sow under Cromwell's horse refer to the story of the Gadarene swine.
Sepe fidem falso mendicat inertia teste, Sepe dolet pietas criminis arte capi ("Often laziness begs faith in false witness, often justice is the captive of criminal deceit"). [3] Indeed, in the slightly later French version of Marie de France, it is the lamb that dies of cold. This had always been the intention of its carnivorous false accusers ...
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In fluid dynamics, Lamb vector is the cross product of vorticity vector and velocity vector of the flow field, named after the physicist Horace Lamb. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Lamb vector is defined as l = u × ω {\displaystyle \mathbf {l} =\mathbf {u} \times {\boldsymbol {\omega }}}