A Weak Formulation of the Shallow-Water Equations for a Rotating Basin

Abstract

Inst. Geofis., Univ. Bologna, via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna, Italy J (Journal-Article) M (Marine) A weak formulation of the equation for the elevation field arising from the shallow-water equations for a rotating inviscid fluid has been developed. The difficulties of this problem, which are due chiefly to the fact that the normal velocity along the contour is given by a linear combination of normal and tangential derivatives of the elevation field, are overcome. As a result, many problems, until now treated using the elevation and velocity component variables, might be solved dealing only with the elevation Ocean Technology, Policy and Non Living Resources (Q2) 0245706 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Record 572 of 1156 - ASFA 1978-1987