Resonant over-reflection of internal gravity waves from a thin shear layer

DOI10.1017/S0022112081001110MaRDI QIDQ3945788zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. H. J. Grimshaw

Publication date 1981

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112081001110

zbMATH Keywords

dampingdestabilizingincident on shear layerinternal gravity waveslayer of small but finite thicknessover-reflectionreflected from layer with increased amplitudethin shear layervortex sheetweakly nonlinear

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55) Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30)

Cites work

• Modulation of an internal gravity wave packet in a stratified shear flow
• On over-reflexion

Cited in

(3)

• Propagation and reflection of internal waves
• A transition from Kelvin–Helmholtz instabilities to propagating wave instabilities
• Instability of a stratified boundary layer and its coupling with internal gravity waves. Part 2. Coupling with internal gravity waves via topography

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