Shear-induced breaking of internal gravity waves

DOI10.1017/jfm.2021.506zbMath1493.76034arXiv2007.09942OpenAlexW3185718520MaRDI QIDQ4957348

J. R. Taylor, C. P. Caulfield, Christopher J. Howland

Publication date: 8 September 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09942

zbMATH Keywords

wave breakingstratified turbulencelarge-amplitude internal gravity wavelinear ray-tracing theorysinusoidal shear flowstrongly stratified ocean thermocline

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Direct numerical and large eddy simulation of turbulence (76F65) Waves for incompressible viscous fluids (76D33) Stratification effects in turbulence (76F45)

Related Items (5)

Internal gravity waves generated by an oscillating disturbance source in a stratified medium in the presence of two-dimensional shear flows ⋮ Stratified turbulent mixing in oscillating shear flows ⋮ Boundary mixing. Part 1. Transport of buoyancy and passive tracer ⋮ Analytic properties of solutions to the equation of internal gravity waves with flows for critical modes of wave generation ⋮ Optimal perturbation growth on a breaking internal gravity wave

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