Waves on a vortex: rays, rings and resonances
(2018)
Journal Article
Torres, T., Coutant, A., Dolan, S., & Weinfurtner, S. (2018). Waves on a vortex: rays, rings and resonances. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 857, 291-311. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.752
We study the scattering of surface water waves with irrotational draining vortices. At small depth, this system is a mathematical analogue of a rotating black hole and can be used to mimic some of its peculiar phenomena. Using ray-tracing methods, we... Read More about Waves on a vortex: rays, rings and resonances.