Numerical Simulation of Internal Tide Generation at a Continental Shelf Break
Abstract
A fully nonlinear, three-dimensional numerical model is developed for the simulation of tidal flow over arbitrary bottom topography in an ocean with realistic stratification. The model is capable of simulating accurately the generation of fine-scale internal wave tidal beams, their interaction with an ocean thermocline and the subsequent generation of solitary internal waves that propagate on this thermocline. Several preliminary simulation results are shown for uniform and non-uniform flow over an idealized two-dimensional ridge, which are compared with linear theory, and for flow over an idealized two-dimensional continental shelf.
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@article{arxiv.1410.1896,
title = {Numerical Simulation of Internal Tide Generation at a Continental Shelf Break},
author = {Laura K. Brandt and James W. Rottman and Kyle A. Brucker and Douglas G. Dommermuth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.1896},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
9 pages, 29th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Gothenburg, Sweden, 26-31 August 2012. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1410.1866