Internal tide generation from non-uniform barotropic body forcing

DOI10.1017/JFM.2023.358zbMATH Open1527.76009arXiv2107.00632OpenAlexW4378676302MaRDI QIDQ6101072FDOQ6101072

Authors: Matthieu J. Mercier, N. Grisouard 

Publication date: 31 May 2023

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

Abstract: We model linear, inviscid, internal tides generated by the interaction of a barotropic tide with one-dimensional topography. Starting from the body-forcing formulation of the hydrodynamic problem, we derive a Coupled-Mode System (CMS) using a local eigenfunction expansion of the stream function. For infinitesimal topography, we solve this CMS analytically, recovering the classical Weak Topography Approximation (WTA) formula for the barotropic-to-baroclinic energy conversion rate. For arbitrary topographies, we solve this CMS numerically. The CMS enjoys faster convergence with respect to existing modal solutions and can be applied in the subcritical and supercritical regimes for both ridges and shelf profiles. We show that the non-uniform barotropic tide affects the baroclinic field locally over topographies with large slopes and we study the dependence of the radiated energy conversion rate on the criticality. We show that non-radiating or weakly radiating topographies are common in the subcritical regime. We also assess the region of validity of the WTA approximation for the commonly used Gaussian ridge and a compactly supported bump ridge studied here for the first time. Finally, we provide numerical evidence showing that in the strongly supercritical regime the energy conversion rate for a ridge (resp. shelf) approaches the value obtained by the knife-edge (resp. step) topography.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.00632

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zbMATH Keywords

coupled-mode systembarotropic-to-baroclinic energy conversion ratelinear inviscid internal wavelocal eigenfunction expansionweak topography approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M45) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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