Talk:Shallow water equations

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Good Evening,

I have suppressed a link in this page to the topic "Shallow Water and Waves". The reason why, altough this may seem disturbing, is that both topics are not related one to the other. Shallow water equations are based on the fact that the wave length of the phenomenon they are supposed to model is much bigger than the depth of the river/lake/ocean where the phenomenon takes place (I'll try to had a brief comment about this). Tides are a good example of a valid use of shallow water equations on any case because the wave length of tides is always much bigger than the depth, even in a very deep ocean. A very deep ocean is actually "shallow" from the point of view of tides. The page "Shallow Water and Waves" refers to high frequency breaking waves such as the ones used for surfing, which is the exact contrary of phenomenon that can be modeled with shallow water equations.

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robin_de_vaucelles