Resonant over-reflection of internal gravity waves from a thin shear layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112081001110zbMath0485.76020OpenAlexW2031527340MaRDI QIDQ3945788

R. H. J. Grimshaw

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112081001110

zbMATH Keywords

dampingvortex sheetinternal gravity wavesweakly nonlineardestabilizingover-reflectionthin shear layerincident on shear layerlayer of small but finite thicknessreflected from layer with increased amplitude

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55)

Related Items (3)

A transition from Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities to propagating wave instabilities ⋮ Propagation and reflection of internal waves ⋮ Instability of a stratified boundary layer and its coupling with internal gravity waves. Part 2. Coupling with internal gravity waves via topography

Cites Work

• Modulation of an internal gravity wave packet in a stratified shear flow
• On over-reflexion

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