Energy cascade in the Garrett–Munk spectrum of internal gravity waves

DOI10.1017/JFM.2023.862arXiv2305.13110OpenAlexW4388574814MaRDI QIDQ6089439FDOQ6089439

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Publication date: 17 November 2023

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

Abstract: We study the spectral energy transfer due to wave-triad interactions in the Garrett-Munk spectrum of internal gravity waves (IGWs) based on a numerical evaluation of the collision integral in the wave kinetic equation. Our numerical evaluation builds on the reduction of the collision integral on the resonant manifold for an horizontally isotropic spectrum. We directly evaluate the downscale energy flux available for ocean mixing, whose value is in close agreement with the empirical finescale parameterization. We further decompose the energy transfer into contributions from different mechanisms, including local interactions and three types of nonlocal interactions, namely parametric subharmonic instability (PSI), elastic scattering (ES) and induced diffusion (ID). Through analysis on the role of each type of interaction, we resolve two long-standing paradoxes regarding the mechanism for forward cascade in frequency and zero ID flux for GM76 spectrum. In addition, our analysis estimates the contribution of each mechanism to the energy transfer in each spectral direction, and reveals new understanding of the importance of local interactions and ES in the energy transfer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13110

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zbMATH Keywords

internal waveswaves in rotating fluidsocean processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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