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This chapter begins the study of waves in fluids, a very important kind of motion with numerous applications. The main characteristic feature of waves is the possibility of energy transport over considerable distances without mass transport. The diversity of forces acting on the particle in a fluid causes a variety of different types of waves. In the following four chapters we will consider these waves using the linear approximation so that interaction between waves will be disregarded.
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Brekhovskikh, L.M., Goncharov, V. (1994). Surface and Internal Waves in Fluids. In: Mechanics of Continua and Wave Dynamics. Springer Series on Wave Phenomena, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85034-9_10
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