Abstract
Shallow water inertio-gravity Poincaré waves in a rotating frame satisfy the Klein-Gordon equation, originally derived for relativistic, spinless quantum particles. Here, we compare these two superficially unrelated phenomena, suggesting a reason for them sharing the same equation. We discuss their energy conservation laws and the equivalency between the non-relativistic limit of the Klein-Gordon equation, yielding the Schrödinger equation, and the near-inertial wave limit in the shallow water system.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 116608 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-7 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Physics of Fluids |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We are grateful to the two anonymous reviewers whose revisions helped us to improve the manuscript. E.H. is grateful to Yair Zarmi, Roy Barkan, Ronald Lubberts, and Mattias Terfelt for fruitful discussion. J.M. acknowledges financial support from the RGC Early Career Scheme, No. 2630020 and the Center for Ocean Research in Hong Kong and Macau, a Joint Research Center between the Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This research was supported in part by NSF-BSF via Grant No. 1025495.
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Keywords
- Propagation