| Abstract: | The generation of unsteady interfacial gravity waves by a singularity immersed in two semi-infinite fluids was analytically investigated in detail by the methods of integral transform and of stationary-phase analysis. The fluids were assumed to be initially stationary, immiscible, inviscid and incompressible. The disturbed flows, generated by an impulsive and oscillatory source/dipole immersed above or be neath the interface, were governed by the I.aplace equations. The kinematic and dynamic boundary conditions on the interface were linearized for the small-amplitude waves. By means of the stationary phase analysis on the exact integral form solutions, the asymptotic representations for the interracial waves were derived for large time with a fixed distance to time ratio. The relation between a submerged singularity and a sur face pressure point was discussed. It is found that the local wavelength and the local wave period of the interracial waves are elongated in comparison with those of free-surface waves for a single fluid. |
