Near-critical reflection of internal waves

DOI10.2140/APDE.2021.14.205zbMATH Open1472.35286arXiv1902.06669OpenAlexW2998849273MaRDI QIDQ2037469FDOQ2037469

Authors: Roberta Bianchini, Anne-Laure Dalibard, Laure Saint-Raymond 

Publication date: 1 July 2021

Published in: Analysis \& PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Internal waves describe the (linear) response of an incompressible stably stratified fluid to small perturbations. The inclination of their group velocity with respect to the vertical is completely determined by their frequency. Therefore the reflection on a sloping boundary cannot follow Descartes' laws, and it is expected to be singular if the slope has the same inclination as the group velocity. In this paper, we prove that in this critical geometry the weakly viscous and weakly nonlinear wave equations have actually a solution which is well approximated by the sum of the incident wave packet, a reflected second harmonic and some boundary layer terms. This result confirms the prediction by Dauxois and Young, and provides precise estimates on the time of validity of this approximation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06669

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zbMATH Keywords

boundary layersinternal wavesBoussinesq approximationnear-critical reflection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) PDEs in connection with geophysics (35Q86) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Stratification effects in viscous fluids (76D50) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Geophysical flows (76U60)

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