Wave Interactions and Fluid Flows

Wave Interactions and Fluid Flows is a coherent up-to-date and comprehensive account of theory and experiment on wave-interaction phenomena both in fluids at rest and in shear flows. On the one hand this includes water waves internal waves their evolution and interaction and associated wave-driven mean flows; on the other phenomena of nonlinear hydrodynamic stability especially those leading to the onset of turbulence. Close similarities -- and crucial differences -- exist between these two classes of phenomena and their treatment in this single study provides a particularly valuable bridge between more specialised but related disciplines. As a result this unique book will appeal to researchers and graduate students of fluid mechanics in its widest sense including the study of wave-interaction phenomena in such diverse fields as meteorology aeronautical and hydraulic engineering optics solar physics and population dynamics.