Reflection properties of internal gravity waves incident upon a hyperbolic tangent shear layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112082002870zbMath0576.76018OpenAlexW2134536079MaRDI QIDQ3696701

C. A. van Duin, Hennie Kelder

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112082002870

zbMATH Keywords

reflectiontransmissionBoussinesq approximationhypergeometric functionsreflection coefficienttransmission coefficientsinternal gravity wavesHeun's equationhyperbolic tangent profileOver-reflectionshear layer containing a critical level

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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• On over-reflexion
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• Neutral eigensolutions of the stability equation for stratified shear flow
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