The distortion of short internal waves produced by a long wave, with application to ocean boundary mixing

DOI10.1017/S0022112089002880MaRDI QIDQ4730909zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. A. Thorpe

Publication date 1989

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112089002880

zbMATH Keywords

Boussinesq fluid of constant density gradientlong, finite-amplitude, two-dimensional, internal wavesloping, sinusoidal topographytrain of short, small-amplitude, internal waves

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)

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• Instability and breakdown of internal gravity waves. I. Linear stability analysis
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