Abstract: Publisher SummarySeiches are standing waves or stationary oscillations, which occur in enclosed or semi-enclosed water basins such as lakes, gulfs, bays, or harbors. The phenomenon was established for the first time by the Swiss physician F. A. Forel in the Lake of Geneva in 1869. The term seiches, which probably refers to the fact that owing to the oscillation a part of the shore becomes dry (sèche in French), was for a time used to characterize sea-level variations in lakes. Later it was also adopted to describe free stationary sea-level oscillations in other more-or-less enclosed water bodies. It was Forel's classic work on seiches in the Lake of Geneva that gave an impulse to the investigation of the phenomenon not only in other lakes but also in gulfs, bays, and harbors. Seiches in every enclosed or partially enclosed water basin have a natural period of free oscillation, which depends upon the horizontal dimensions and the depth of the water body, and on the number of nodes of the standing wave.
Publication Year: 1974
Publication Date: 1974-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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