How internal waves could lead to wreck American and Indonesian submarines?
Geophysics
2021-07-06 v2 Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
The article reflects the author's point of view on the disasters that occurred with American atomic submarines Thresher and Scorpion in 1960th and Indonesian diesel submarine Nanggala-420 in April 2021. A possible role of giant internal waves in such tragic events is discussed. Parameters of large-amplitude internal solitary waves, their shapes and speeds of propagation are presented. The author's reconstruction of the disasters is given.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2107.00828,
title = {How internal waves could lead to wreck American and Indonesian submarines?},
author = {Yury Stepanyants},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.00828},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
28 pages, 21 figures, 1 table