Chapter 9—Product Concepts

Free-surface oscillations, known as seiches or seiching in lakes and harbours or as sloshing in coffee cups, bathtubs and storage tanks, have been observed since very early times; a vivid description of seiching in Lake Constance, Switzerland, was given in 1549, and the first instrumental record of seiches obtained in 1730 in Lake Geneva [Wilson, 1972; Miles, 1974]. Korgen [1995] describes ... ................
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