A General Derivation of the Conservation Equation for Wave Action.

Abstract

The conservation equation for wave action density and the wave Liouville equation are derived for general dispersive, dissipative media. The derivation of the conservation equation follows from a straightforward extension of the WKB method to time varying media.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA009797

Entities

People

  • Wallace M. Manheimer

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Equations
  • Liouville Equation

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis