The trapping and vertical focusing of internal waves in a pycnocline due to the horizontal inhomogeneities of density and currents

DOI10.1017/S0022112085002610MaRDI QIDQ3696708zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. I. Badulin, Victor I. Shrira, L. S. Tsimring

Publication date 1985

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112085002610

zbMATH Keywords

central packetfrequency close to local maximum of effective Väisälä frequencypropagation of a wave packetsmall-scale turbulencewave trappingWKB approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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• On transport across a barotropic shear flow by breaking inertia-gravity waves
• Surface effects of vertically propagating gravity waves in a stratified fluid
• Strato-rotational instability without resonance
• Instability and breaking of internal waves in a horizontal shear layer
• Operator separation of variables for adiabatic problems in quantum and wave mechanics

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