Author:
Stewartson K.,Cheng H. K.
Abstract
The inviscid flow above an obstacle in slow transverse motion inside a rotating vessel is analysed to study the influence of the container depth on the basic steady flow structure. An asymptotic theory is presented for an arbitrarily small Rossby number Ro = U0/2Ωl under a fixed H = hRo/l (where Ω is the angular velocity of the container, U0 the obstacle velocity relative to the vessel, h the depth of the container, and l a body length measured transversely to the rotation axis). The equations when linearized for a thin obstacle or shallow topography take on the form of the inertial-wave equation; their solutions for non-vanishing H are obtained for obstacles of three-dimensional as well as ridge-like two-dimensional shapes. In all cases analysed, the solution possesses a bimodal structure, of which one part is column-like with a vorticity proportional to the body elevation (or ground topography). The other part is confined mainly to a region enclosing the body, extending a distance O(H½) upstream of the obstacle and behind a wedge-shaped caustic front at large distances; its contribution consists of lee waves similar to that discussed by Cheng (1977) for an infinite depth. The field associated with the lee waves is then biased on the downstream side, but there is little indication of any tendency to tilting in the sense of Hide, Ibbetson & Lighthill (1968).
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Condensed Matter Physics
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