Enhancement of wave transmissions in multiple radiative and convective zones

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DOI10.1017/JFM.2021.178zbMATH Open1461.76518arXiv2102.12018OpenAlexW3140686176MaRDI QIDQ5857962FDOQ5857962


Authors: Tao Cai, Cong Yu, Xing Wei Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 8 April 2021

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

Abstract: In this paper, we study wave transmission in a rotating fluid with multiple alternating convectively stable and unstable layers. We have discussed wave transmissions in two different circumstances: cases where the wave is propagative in each layer and cases where wave tunneling occurs. We find that efficient wave transmission can be achieved by `resonant propagation' or `resonant tunneling', even when stable layers are strongly stratified, and we call this phenomenon `enhanced wave transmission'. Enhanced wave transmission only occurs when the total number of layers is odd (embedding stable layers are alternatingly embedded within clamping convective layers, or vise versa). For wave propagation, the occurrence of enhanced wave transmission requires that clamping layers have similar properties, the thickness of each clamping layer is close to a multiple of the half wavelength of the corresponding propagative wave, and the total thickness of embedded layers is close to a multiple of the half wavelength of the corresponding propagating wave (resonant propagation). For wave tunneling, we have considered two cases: tunneling of gravity waves and tunneling of inertial waves. In both cases, efficient tunneling requires that clamping layers have similar properties, the thickness of each embedded layer is much smaller than the corresponding e-folding decay distance, and the thickness of each clamping layer is close to a multiple-and-a-half of half wavelength (resonant tunneling).


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12018




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