Soliton generation by internal tidal beams impinging on a pycnocline: laboratory experiments

DOI10.1017/jfm.2012.191zbMath1246.76007arXiv1505.05396OpenAlexW3124651620MaRDI QIDQ2907242

Jorge M. Magalhães, José C. B. da Silva, Louis Gostiaux, Manikandan Mathur, Matthieu J. Mercier, Theo Gerkema, Thierry Dauxois

Publication date: 7 September 2012

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.05396

zbMATH Keywords

solitary wavesinternal wavesocean processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Solitary waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B25) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55)

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Modulational instability of surface-gravity waves in presence of a pycnocline of finite thickness ⋮ Internal wave resonant triads in finite-depth non-uniform stratifications ⋮ Generation of mode-2 internal waves in a two-dimensional stratification by a mode-1 internal wave ⋮ Instabilities in internal gravity waves ⋮ Surface manifestation of internal waves emitted by submerged localized stratified turbulence ⋮ Three-dimensional small-scale instabilities of plane internal gravity waves ⋮ Triadic resonances in internal wave modes with background shear ⋮ Harmonic generation by nonlinear self-interaction of a single internal wave mode ⋮ Internal wave generation by tidal flow over a two-dimensional ridge: energy flux asymmetries induced by a steady surface trapped current

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