On particle trajectories in linear deep-water waves

Abstract

We determine the phase portrait of a Hamiltonian system of equations describing the motion of the particles in linear deep-water waves. The particles experience in each period a forward drift which decreases with greater depth.

To appear in "Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - B"

References in corpus (1)

• Particle trajectories in linearized irrotational shallow water flows

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• On the particle paths and the stagnation points in small-amplitude deep-water waves