Boundary streaming by internal waves

DOI10.1017/JFM.2018.786MaRDI QIDQ4559250zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Renaud, A. Venaille

Publication date 3 December 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00068

zbMATH Keywords

geophysical and geological flowsinternal wavesstratified flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Waves for incompressible viscous fluids (76D33) Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Abstract: Damped internal wave beams in stratified fluids have long been known to generate strong mean flows through a mechanism analogous to acoustic streaming. While the role of viscous boundary layers in acoustic streaming has thoroughly been addressed, it remains largely unexplored in the case of internal waves. Here we compute the mean flow generated close to an undulating wall that emits internal waves in a viscous, linearly stratified two-dimensional Boussinesq fluid. Using a quasi-linear approach, we demonstrate that the form of the boundary conditions dramatically impacts the generated boundary streaming. In the no-slip scenario, the early time Reynolds stress divergence within the viscous boundary layer is much stronger than within the bulk while also driving flow in the opposite direction. Whatever the boundary condition, boundary streaming is however dominated by bulk streaming at a larger time. Using a WKB approach, we investigate the consequences of adding boundary streaming effects to an idealised model of wave-mean flow interactions known to reproduce the salient features of the quasi-biennial oscillation. The presence of wave boundary layers has a quantitative impact on the flow reversals.

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