Lagrangian coherent structures and internal wave attractors

W Tang, T Peacock - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
For a nonuniformly stratified layer of fluid, internal gravity waves propagate at varying angles
depending on the local buoyancy and Coriolis (in geophysical applications) frequencies …

Observations on the wavenumber spectrum and evolution of an internal wave attractor

J Hazewinkel, P Van Breevoort, SB Dalziel… - Journal of Fluid …, 2008 - cambridge.org
Reflecting internal gravity waves in a stratified fluid preserve their frequency and thus their
angle with the gravitational direction. At boundaries that are neither horizontal nor vertical …

From topographic internal gravity waves to turbulence

S Sarkar, A Scotti - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Internal gravity waves are a key process linking the large-scale mechanical forcing of the
oceans to small-scale turbulence and mixing. In this review, we focus on internal waves …

Shear-induced breaking of internal gravity waves

CJ Howland, JR Taylor, CP Caulfield - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
Motivated by observations of turbulence in the strongly stratified ocean thermocline, we use
direct numerical simulations to investigate the interaction of a sinusoidal shear flow and a …

Internal gravity waves in stratified flows with and without vortical modes

V Labarre, P Augier, G Krstulovic, S Nazarenko - Physical Review Fluids, 2024 - APS
The comprehension of stratified flows is important for geophysical and astrophysical
applications. The weak wave turbulence theory aims to provide a statistical description of …

On the appearance of internal wave attractors due to an initial or parametrically excited disturbance

J Bajars, J Frank, LRM Maas - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - cambridge.org
In this paper we solve two initial value problems for two-dimensional internal gravity waves.
The waves are contained in a uniformly stratified, square-shaped domain whose sidewalls …

Observation of inertia-gravity wave attractors in an axisymmetric enclosed basin

C Pacary, T Dauxois, E Ermanyuk, P Metz, M Moulin… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Internal waves are ubiquitous in the ocean and play an essential role in the transport of
energy and mixing. Their peculiar reflection enables the concentration of energy on a limit …

[PDF][PDF] A Numerical Investigation Of Turbulence-Driven And Forced Generation Of Internal Gravitywaves In Stratified Mid-Water

A Abdilghanie - 2011 - ecommons.cornell.edu
Natural and externally-forced excitation of internal gravity waves in a uniformly stratified fluid
have been thoroughly investigated by means of highly resolved large eddy simulations. The …

Exact analytic self-similar solution of a wave attractor field

LRM Maas - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2009 - Elsevier
Stratified and rotating fluids support obliquely propagating internal waves. A symmetry-
breaking shape of the fluid domain focuses them on a wave attractor. For a trapezoidal …

Internal wave turbulence in a stratified fluid with and without eigenmodes of the experimental domain

N Lanchon, DO Mora, E Monsalve, PP Cortet - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
We present laboratory experiments on turbulence in a linearly stratified fluid driven by an
ensemble of internal gravity waves which approaches statistical homogeneity and …