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Induced diffusion (ID), an important mechanism of spectral energy transfer in the internal gravity wave (IGW) field, plays a significant role in driving turbulent dissipation in the ocean interior. In this study, we revisit the ID mechanism…

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Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

We report on the observation of gravity-capillary wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid in a high-gravity environment. By using a large-diameter centrifuge, the effective gravity acceleration is tuned up to 20 times the Earth gravity.…

First order phase transitions are well-motivated and extensively studied sources of gravitational waves (GWs) from the early Universe. The vacuum energy released during such transitions is assumed to be transferred primarily either to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Ryusuke Jinno , Bibhushan Shakya , Jorinde van de Vis

Geophysical fluids such as the ocean and atmosphere can be stratified: their density depends on the depth. As a consequence, they can host internal gravity waves that propagate in the bulk of the fluid, far from the surface. These waves can…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Sasan J. Ghaemsaidi , Michel Fruchart , Severine Atis

Gravity waves (GWs) are a fundamental driver of circulation, tracer transport, and mixing in the middle and upper atmosphere, but their treatment in global circulation models remains incomplete. In particular, standard parameterizations…

Detailed modeling of stellar evolution requires a better understanding of the (magneto-)hydrodynamic processes which mix chemical elements and transport angular momentum. Understanding these pro- cesses is crucial if we are to accurately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 T. M. Rogers , J. N. McElwaine

Atmospheric gravity (buoyancy) waves (GWs) are of great importance for the energy and momentum budget of all planetary atmospheres. Propagating upward waves carry energy and momentum from the lower atmosphere to thermospheric altitudes and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Erdal Yiğit , Alexander S. Medvedev , Paul Hartogh

Internal gravity waves (hereafter IGWs) are known as one of the candidates for explaining the angular velocity profile in the Sun and in solar-type main-sequence and evolved stars, due to their role in the transport of angular momentum. Our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lucie Alvan , Stephane Mathis , Thibaut Decressin

Gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by binary sources are interesting signals for testing gravity on cosmological scales since they allow measurements of the luminosity distance. When followed by electromagnetic counterparts, in particular,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Isabela S. Matos , Emilio Bellini , Maurício O. Calvão , Martin Kunz

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

Asteroseismology probes the interiors of stars by studying oscillation modes at a star's surface. Although pulsation spectra are well understood for solar-like oscillators, a substantial fraction of red giant stars observed by Kepler…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Daniel Lecoanet , Geoffrey M Vasil , Jim Fuller , Matteo Cantiello , Keaton J Burns

Stratified turbulence shows scale- and direction-dependent anisotropy and the coexistence of weak turbulence of internal gravity waves and strong turbulence of eddies. Straightforward application of standard analyses developed in isotropic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-10 Naoto Yokoyama , Masanori Takaoka

The regimes of possible global atmospheric circulation patterns in an Earth-like atmosphere are explored using a simplified GCM based on the University of Hamburg's Portable University Model for the Atmosphere with simplified (linear)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Yixiong Wang , Peter Read , Fachreddin Tabataba-Vakili , Roland Young

Fronts and near-inertial waves are energetic motions in the upper ocean that can interact and provide a route for kinetic energy (KE) dissipation of balanced oceanic flows. A quasilinear model is developed to study the KE exchanges between…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Subhajit Kar , Roy Barkan

A series of laboratory experiments has been carried out in a thermally driven rotating annulus to study the onset of baroclinic instability, using horizontal and uniformly sloping bottom topographies. Different wave flow regimes have been…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Miklos Vincze , Uwe Harlander , Thomas von Larcher , Christoph Egbers

The nonlinear turbulent interactions between acoustic gravity waves are investigated using two dimensional nonlinear fluid simulations. The acoustic gravity waves consist of velocity and density perturbations and propagate across the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , Padma K Shukla , Lennart Stenflo

Internal gravity waves (hereafter IGWs) are studied for their impact on the angular momentum transport in stellar radiation zones and the information they provide about the structure and dynamics of deep stellar interiors. We here present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Lucie Alvan , Allan Sacha Brun , Stéphane Mathis

The condition of internal gravity waves (IGW) parametric excitation in the rotating fluid layer heated from above, with the layer vibration along the vertical axis or with periodic modulation in time of the vertical temperature…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-08-28 Sergey G. Chefranov , Alexander G. Chefranov

The theory of low-frequency (in comparison with the ion cyclotron frequency), long wavelength, electrostatic drift ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) is studied in a nonuniform rotating magnetoplasma with two temperature superthermal electrons. In…

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