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A note on the Burgers-Rott vortex with a free surface

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Rott's solution of the "bathtub vortex" problem, which neglects the depression of the free surface, is extended by allowing for a mildly sloping free surface of a shallow, rotating fluid.

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  1. Cecil H. and Ida M. Groon Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, San Diego, California, U.S.A., e-mail: jmiles@ucsd.edu, USA

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Received: April 14, 1997

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Miles, J. A note on the Burgers-Rott vortex with a free surface. Z. angew. Math. Phys. 49, 162–165 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s000330050087

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