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The Effect of Surface Contamination on the Drift Velocity of Water Waves

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This paper presents a study on the effect of surface contamination on the damping of progressive waves and on the second order Eulerian drift. The results are shown to subsume those obtained by Phillips in the limiting case of an inextensible film. The quasi-steady states are examined.

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  1. University of Maine at Orono, Orono, Maine, 04469, USA

    Kewal K. Puri & Bryan R. Pearce

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  1. Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    Yoshiaki Toba

  2. Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Hisashi Mitsuyasu

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Puri, K.K., Pearce, B.R. (1985). The Effect of Surface Contamination on the Drift Velocity of Water Waves. In: Toba, Y., Mitsuyasu, H. (eds) The Ocean Surface. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7717-5_18

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