compound wave

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compound wave [′käm‚pau̇nd ′wāv]

(fluid mechanics)

A plane wave of finite amplitude in which neither the sum of the velocity potential and the component of velocity in the direction of wave motion, nor the difference of these two quantities, is constant.

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