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Old 11th Apr 2016, 18:24
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About 55 years ago, during a university course on fluid dynamics, the lecturer mentioned in passing a paper by William Penney published about ten years earlier in the Journal of the London Mathematical Association. The subject was water waves induced by high energy events, and Penney was leader of the development on the British atomic and hydrogen bombs. The paper, which I did not follow up on, was assumed to be a sanitized version of research into potential effects of atmosperic nuclear explosions. Although principally concerned with free-surface effects, the techniques employed in the paper may be of interest to the OP.
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