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Particle trajectories in finite depth water

Particle at `` tex2html_wrap_inline1513 " will have

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Integrating (83) and (84) with respect to t we get finally (see page 2-15, 2-16, 2-17 in SPM) that the particles have elliptic trajectories with semi-axes A and B:

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Finite Depth Water

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Soon Woong Chang
Wed Oct 27 12:41:46 CDT 1999