Changeset 2876

Timestamp:

May 16, 2006, 1:55:13 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

sexton

Message:

updates to smf

File:

• documentation/experimentation/smf.tex (modified) (2 diffs)

documentation/experimentation/smf.tex

@@ -104 +104 @@
 $\kappa'$ is technically less than 1 for $\Delta x < 5.93$ it is
 effectively equal to 1 for those values. From this calculation, it would
-seem then that there would be no appropriate $\Delta x$ for $\kappa'$ = 0.83 
-(a parameter used in [2]).
+seem then that there is no appropriate $\Delta x$ for $\kappa'$ = 0.83 
+(a parameter used in [2]) satisfying conservation of volume.
 
 We've reproduced Figure 2 in [2]
@@ -144 +144 @@
 by |$\eta_{\rm min}$|?
 
-Our next question is whether it was appropriate to substitute
+Our final question is whether it is appropriate to substitute
 the formulation for $x_g$ into the surface elevation function using
 $x_0 - \Delta x \approx x_g$. 
 ($x_g$ is formulated
-as $x_g = d/\tan \theta + T/ \sin \theta$ (described as a gauge
+as $x_g = d/\tan \theta + T/ \sin \theta$ which is described as a gauge
 located above the submarine mass failure
-initial submergence location in [3]).) In this
+initial submergence location in [3].) In this
 way, $\kappa'$ as described above would not 
 be dependent on $\Delta x$, nor the subsequent surface elevation function.