Paper 3, Section II, B

Fluid Dynamics | Part IB, 2015

A source of sound induces a travelling wave of pressure above the free surface of a fluid located in the z<0z<0 domain as

p=patm+p0cos(kxωt),p=p_{a t m}+p_{0} \cos (k x-\omega t),

with p0patmp_{0} \ll p_{a t m}. Here kk and ω\omega are fixed real numbers. We assume that the flow induced in the fluid is irrotational.

(i) State the linearized equation of motion for the fluid and the free surface, z=h(x,t)z=h(x, t), with all boundary conditions.

(ii) Solve for the velocity potential, ϕ(x,z,t)\phi(x, z, t), and the height of the free surface, h(x,t)h(x, t). Verify that your solutions are dimensionally correct.

(iii) Interpret physically the behaviour of the solution when ω2=gk\omega^{2}=g k.

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