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gfdl's home page > gfdl's bibliography > isidoro orlanski > Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 69 (part 3), 445-464.
On the role of density jumps in the reflexion and breaking of internal gravity waves
| Delisi, D. P., and I. Orlanski, 1975: On the role of density jumps in the reflexion and breaking of internal gravity waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 69 (part 3), 445-464. |
| Abstract: A laboratory experiment is presented which examines the role of density jumps in the reflexion and breaking of internal gravity waves. It is found that the measured phase shift of the reflected wave and the measured amplitude of the density jump are in good agreement with linear theory. Local overturning occurs when wave amplitude becomes large, and there appears to be a critical amplitutde above which overturning will occur and below which it will not. The overturning seems to be due to local gravitational instability, caused by the horizontal advection of density. Overturning changes the basic flow field in the region of interaction; and it results in smaller-scale motions. |