On the nonlinear reflection of a gravity wave at a critical level. Part 3

DOI10.1017/S0022112082000731zbMath0506.76020OpenAlexW4252702727MaRDI QIDQ4743912

Keith Stewartson, Susan N. Brown

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112082000731

zbMATH Keywords

reflection and transmissionlinearizedRichardson numberWKBJ approximationsbuoyancy forces dominate inertial forces in critical layer responsecritical layer starts to return energy to shear flowforced internal gravity wavelonger timesnonlinear terms become significantsingular interaction with stratified shear flow at critical level

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Laplace transform (44A10) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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• The critical layer for internal gravity waves in a shear flow