Generation, propagation, and breaking of an internal wave beam

DOI10.1063/1.3455432zbMath1190.76026OpenAlexW2080647193MaRDI QIDQ3578662

Heather A. Clark, B. R. Sutherland

Publication date: 20 July 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3455432

zbMATH Keywords

wave propagationboundary layer turbulencegravity wavesflow simulationnumerical analysisflow instabilityflow visualisationfluid oscillationsstratified flowsodium compounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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