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  2. Stokes problem - Wikipedia

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    The disturbance created by the oscillating plate travels as the transverse wave through the fluid, but it is highly damped by the exponential factor. The depth of penetration δ = 2 ν / ω {\displaystyle \delta ={\sqrt {2\nu /\omega }}} of this wave decreases with the frequency of the oscillation, but increases with the kinematic viscosity of ...

  3. Limiting amplitude principle - Wikipedia

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    The choice is made by considering a particular time-dependent problem of the forced oscillations due to the action of a periodic force. The principle was introduced by Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov and Alexander Andreevich Samarskii. [1] It is closely related to the limiting absorption principle (1905) and the Sommerfeld radiation condition (1912).

  4. Stokes drift - Wikipedia

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    k is the wave number: k = 2π/λ (radians per meter), ω is the angular frequency: ω = 2π/T (radians per second), x is the horizontal coordinate and the wave propagation direction (meters), z is the vertical coordinate, with the positive z direction pointing out of the fluid layer (meters), λ is the wave length (meters), T is the wave period .

  5. Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy condition - Wikipedia

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    The principle behind the condition is that, for example, if a wave is moving across a discrete spatial grid and we want to compute its amplitude at discrete time steps of equal duration, [2] then this duration must be less than the time for the wave to travel to adjacent grid points. As a corollary, when the grid point separation is reduced ...

  6. Characteristic impedance - Wikipedia

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    Generally, a wave is reflected back along the line in the opposite direction. When the reflected wave reaches the source, it is reflected yet again, adding to the transmitted wave and changing the ratio of the voltage and current at the input, causing the voltage-current ratio to no longer equal the characteristic impedance.

  7. WKB approximation - Wikipedia

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    Although for any fixed value of , the wave function is bounded near the turning points, the wave function will be peaked there, as can be seen in the images above. As gets smaller, the height of the wave function at the turning points grows. It also follows from this approximation that:

  8. Fermat's principle - Wikipedia

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    Accordingly, let us modify the example by supposing that the wavefront which becomes surface W at time t, and which becomes surface W′ at the later time t + Δt, is emitted from point A at time 0. Let P be a point on W (as before), and B a point on W′. And let A, W, W′, and B be given, so that the problem is to find P.

  9. Stationary phase approximation - Wikipedia

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    The second statement is that when f is a Morse function, so that the singular points of f are non-degenerate and isolated, then the question can be reduced to the case n = 1. In fact, then, a choice of g can be made to split the integral into cases with just one critical point P in each.