Paper 3, Section II, C
Part IB, 2016
A layer of thickness of a fluid of density is located above a layer of thickness of a fluid of density . The two-fluid system is bounded by two impenetrable surfaces at and and is assumed to be two-dimensional (i.e. independent of ). The fluid is subsequently perturbed, and the interface between the two fluids is denoted .
(a) Assuming irrotational motion in each fluid, state the equations and boundary conditions satisfied by the flow potentials, and .
(b) The interface is perturbed by small-amplitude waves of the form , with . State the equations and boundary conditions satisfied by the linearised system.
(c) Calculate the dispersion relation of the waves relating the frequency to the wavenumber .