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We use a linear shallow-water model to investigate the global circulation of the atmospheres of tidally locked planets. Simulations, observations, and simple models show that if these planets are sufficiently rapidly rotating, their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Mark Hammond , Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

Turbulent and internal wave motions are important for the exchange of momentum, heat and suspended matter in the deep-sea which is generally stably stratified in density. Turbulence-generation models involve shear of vertical current…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-21 Hans van Haren

We establish a link between vorticity wave interaction and $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry breaking in shear flow instabilities. The minimal dynamical system for two coupled counter-propagating vorticity waves is shown to be a non-Hermitian system…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-04 Cong Meng , Zhibin Guo

In oceans, multiple energetic inertia-gravity waves often coexist in a region. In this paper, we study the stability of two coexisting plane inertia-gravity waves (hereafter, primary waves), with the same frequencies ($\omega_1$) and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-05 Saranraj Gururaj , Anirban Guha

We propose to model physical effects at the sharp density interface between atmosphere and ocean with the help of diffuse interface approaches for multiphase flows with variable densities. We use the variable-density model proposed in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle

Intermediate-mass main sequence stars have large radiative envelopes overlying convective cores. This configuration allows internal gravity waves (IGWs) generated at the convective-radiative interface to propagate towards the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 R. P. Ratnasingam , P. V. F. Edelmann , T. M. Rogers

We report the quantitative experimental observation of the weak inertial-wave turbulence regime of rotating turbulence. We produce a statistically steady homogeneous turbulent flow that consists of nonlinearly interacting inertial waves,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-26 Eduardo Monsalve , Maxime Brunet , Basile Gallet , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

The role of short-wave instabilities on geostrophic turbulence is studied in a simplified model consisting of three layers in the quasi-geostrophic approximation. The linear stability analysis shows that short-wave instabilities are created…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-21 Gualtiero Badin

Recent developments of the weak turbulence theory applied to internal waves exhibit a power-law solution of the kinetic energy equation close to the oceanic Garrett \& Munk spectrum, confirming weakly nonlinear wave interactions as a likely…

The interacting vorticity wave formalism for shear flow instabilities is extended here to the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) setting, to provide a mechanistic description for the stabilising and destabilising of shear instabilities by the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-30 Eyal Heifetz , Julian Mak , Jonas Nycander , Orkan M. Umurhan

The internal-wave (IW) continuum of a regional ocean model is studied in terms of the vertical spectral kinetic-energy (KE) fluxes and transfers at high vertical wavenumbers. Previous work has shown that this model permits a partial…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Joseph Skitka , Brian K. Arbic , Ritabrata Thakur , Dimitris Menemenlis , William R. Peltier , Yulin Pan , Kayhan Momeni , Yuchen Ma

Atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) are generated in the lower atmosphere by various weather phenomena. They propagate upward, carry energy and momentum to higher altitudes, and appreciably influence the general circulation upon depositing them…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Erdal Yiğit , Alexander S. Medvedev , Manfred Ern

A new type of wave-mean flow interaction is identified and studied in which a small-amplitude, linear, dispersive modulated wave propagates through an evolving, nonlinear, large-scale fluid state such as an expansion (rarefaction) wave or a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-08-06 T. Congy , G. A. El , M. A. Hoefer

We investigate the weakly nonlinear dynamics of transient gravity waves at infinite depth under the influence of a shear current varying linearly with depth. An analytical solution is permitted via integration of the Euler equations.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-20 A. H. Akselsen , Simen Å. Ellingsen

The rich harvest of seismic observations over the past decade provides evidence of angular momentum redistribution in stellar interiors that is not reproduced by current evolution codes. In this context, transport by internal gravity waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 C. Pinçon , K. Belkacem , M. J. Goupil

A framework for the study of surface ocean inertial particle motion is built from the Maxey--Riley set. A new set is obtained by vertically averaging each term of the original set, adapted to account for Earth's rotation effects, across the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 F. J. Beron-Vera , M. J. Olascoaga , P. Miron

Special features of surface gravity waves in deep fluid flow with constant vertical shear of velocity is studied. It is found that the mean flow velocity shear leads to non-trivial modification of surface gravity wave modes dispersive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. Gogoberidze , L. Samushia , G. D. Chagelishvili , J. G. Lominadze , W. Horton

This study describes a specific type of critical layer for near-inertial waves (NIWs) that forms when isopycnals run parallel to sloping bathymetry. Upon entering this slantwise critical layer, the group velocity of the waves decreases to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Lixin Qu , Leif N. Thomas , Robert D. Hetland

For a large system of identical particles interacting by means of a potential, we find that a strong large scale flow velocity can induce motions in the inertial range via the potential coupling. This forcing lies in special bundles in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Rafail V. Abramov

Turbulence and large-scale waves in the tropical region are studied using the spherical shallow water equations. With mesoscale vorticity forcing, both moist and dry systems show kinetic energy scaling that is dominated by rotational modes,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 J. Schröttle , D. L. Suhas , N. Harnik , J. Sukhatme