Mean flow properties for equatorially trapped internal water wave–current interactions

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of the mean flow velocities, and the related mass transport induced by equatorially trapped internal water waves with a constant underlying current.

Keywords:

• Mean velocity
• mass flow
• internal waves
• geophysical water waves
• exact and explicit solution

AMS Subject Classifications:

• 76B15
• 74G05
• 86A05

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Corrigendum

Notes

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

This article was originally published with errors. This version has been corrected. Please see Corrigendum (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036811.2016.1229247).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) research [grant number 13/CDA/2117].