Wavetrains in inhomogeneous moving media

@article{Bretherton1968WavetrainsII,
  title={Wavetrains in inhomogeneous moving media},
  author={Francis P. Bretherton and Christopher John Raymond Garrett},
  journal={Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences},
  year={1968},
  volume={302},
  pages={529 - 554},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:202575349}
}
When a slowly varying wavetrain of small amplitude propagates in a general medium, changes of frequency and wavenumber are determined along definite paths known as rays. It is shown that, for a wide class of conservative systems in fluid dynamics changes in amplitude along the rays may be computed from conservation of wave action, which is defined as the wave energy divided by the intrinsic frequency. The intrinsic frequency is the frequency which would be measured by an observer moving with… 
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