On the shape and breaking of finite amplitude internal gravity waves in a shear flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112078000518zbMATH Open0379.76016MaRDI QIDQ4158643FDOQ4158643

S. A. Thorpe

Publication date: 1978

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-04)

Cites Work

• On the non-linear mechanics of wave disturbances in stable and unstable parallel flows Part 1. The basic behaviour in plane Poiseuille flow
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• Parametric instability of internal gravity waves
• Near-resonant forcing in a shallow two-layer fluid: a model for the internal surge in Loch New?

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• Modulation of an internal gravity wave packet in a stratified shear flow
• Interfacial instability for droplet formation in two-layer immiscible liquids under rotational oscillation
• The breaking of interfacial waves at a submerged bathymetric ridge
• Subgrid length-scales for large-eddy simulation of stratified turbulence

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