Sensitivity of internal wave energy distribution over seabed corrugations to adjacent seabed features

DOI10.1017/JFM.2017.297MaRDI QIDQ4594089zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Farid Karimpour, Ahmad Zareei, Joël Tchoufag, Mohammad-Reza Alam

Publication date 17 November 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02641

zbMATH Keywords

internal wavestopographic effectsgeophysical and geological flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Abstract: Here we show that the distribution of internal gravity waves energy over a patch of seabed corrugations strongly depends on the "distance" of the patch to adjacent seafloor features. Specifically, we consider the energy distribution over a patch of seabed ripples neighbored to i. another patch of ripples, and ii. a vertical wall. Seabed undulations with dominant wavenumber twice as large as overpassing internal waves reflect back part of the energy of the internal waves (Bragg reflection), let the rest of the energy to transmit or to be transferred to higher and lower modes. In the presence of a neighboring topography on the downstream side, the transmitted energy from the patch may reflect back, e.g. partially if the downstream topography is another set of seabed ripples, or fully if it is a vertical wall. The reflected wave from downstream topography is again reflected back by the patch of ripples through the same mechanism. This consecutive reflection goes on indefinitely leading to a complex interaction pattern including constructive and destructive interference of multiply reflected waves as well as an interplay between higher modes internal waves resonated over the topography. We show here that when steady state is reached both the qualitative and quantitative behavior of energy distribution over the patch is a strong function of the "distance" between the patch and the downstream topography. As a result, for instance, the local energy density in the water column can become an order of magnitude larger in certain areas merely based on where the downstream topography is. This may result in the formation of steep waves in specific areas of the ocean, leading to breaking and enhanced mixing. At a right distance, the wall or the second patch may also result in a complete disappearance of the trace of the seabed undulations on the upstream and the downstream wave field.

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