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

DOI10.1017/S0022112082002870MaRDI QIDQ3696701zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

Boussinesq approximationHeun's equationhyperbolic tangent profilehypergeometric functionsinternal gravity wavesOver-reflectionreflectionreflection coefficientshear layer containing a critical leveltransmissiontransmission coefficients

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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