The trapping and vertical focusing of internal waves in a pycnocline due to the horizontal inhomogeneities of density and currents

DOI10.1017/S0022112085002610zbMath0576.76025OpenAlexW2136721232MaRDI QIDQ3696708

L. Sh. Tsimring, Victor I. Shrira, Sergei I. Badulin

Publication date: 1985

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112085002610

zbMATH Keywords

WKB approximationwave trappingsmall-scale turbulencepropagation of a wave packetcentral packetfrequency close to local maximum of effective Väisälä frequency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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