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Kinematic boundary condition on the wave surface (free-surface)

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''The fluid particles on the free-surface should follow the vertical motions of the wave profile''

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KBC on the free surface

Note: For simplicity we only give the KBC in the case of linear wave theory. A more general expression of this KBC requires the components of the particle velocity and the fluid velocity along a direction normal to the wave profile to be equal to each other.



Soon Woong Chang
Thu Sep 23 16:47:16 CDT 1999