The asymptotic representation of low-frequency, linear, isentropic dynamic tides in components of close binaries derived by Smeyers (1997) is reconsidered. The constructions of the second-order boundary-layer solutions for the divergence and the radial component of the tidal displacement are made more transparent. Moreover, the determination of the constants involved in the second-order boundar...

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A high resolution modeling study is undertaken, with a 2.5-dimensional nonhydrostatic model, of the generation of internal waves induced by tidal motion over the ridges in Luzon Strait. The model is forced by the barotropic tidal components K1, M2, and O1. These tidal components, along with the initial density field, were extracted from data and models. As the barotropic tide moves over the Luz...

The mathematical problem of establishing a collision probability distribution is often not trivial. The shape and motion of the animal as well as of the the device must be evaluated in a four-dimensional space (3D motion over time). Earlier work on wind and tidal turbines was limited to a simplified two-dimensional representation, which cannot be applied to many new structures. We present a num...

The most demanding applications are tidal gravity predictions. We examine if the nms precision can be reached. It correspond roughly to a 4.10 of the tidal range (TR) at mid latitude. High precision tidal prediction requires either tidal factors derived from tidal observations or modelled tidal factors based on the response of the Earth to tidal forces and on the ocean tides contribution. Both ...

Awhite dwarf (WD) captured into a high-eccentricity orbit around amassive black hole (MBH) may undergo many pericentre passages before tidal disruption. During these passages, the tidal potential of the MBH excites internal oscillations or waves in the WD, and the dissipation of these oscillations can significantly influence the physical properties of the WD prior to its disruption. We calculat...

We study the tidal evolution of a binary system consisting of a 1.4M⊙ compact object in elliptic orbit about a 10M⊙ uniformly rotating main sequence (MS) star for various values of the initial orbital parameters. We apply our previously published results of 2D non-adiabatic calculations of the non-radial gand r-mode oscillations of the uniformly rotating MS star, and include the effects of reso...

The Severn Estuary has the third highest tidal range in the world with its spring tidal range reaching 14 m. The estuary is extremely turbid with very high suspended sediment concentrations and limited light penetration through the water column. It has large areas of intertidal mudflat which are of major conservation importance. Hence, it is protected under several European legislative directiv...

0019-1035/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.034 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (L. Han), showman man). We present self-consistent, fully coupled two-dimensional (2D) numerical models of thermal evolution and tidal heating to investigate how convection interacts with tidal dissipation under the influence of non-Newtonian grain-size-sensit...