The trajectories of particles in Stokes waves

Adrian Constantin1,2
1School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
2Department of Mathematics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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Analyzing a free boundary problem for harmonic functions we show that there are no closed particle paths in an irrotational inviscid traveling wave propagating at the surface of water over a flat bed: within a period each particle experiences a backward-forward motion with a slight forward drift.

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