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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

Internal gravity waves (IGWs) have been shown to contribute to the transport of chemical elements in stars with a convective core and radiative envelope. Recent 2D hydrodynamical simulations of convection in intermediate-mass stars have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 J. S. G. Mombarg , A. Varghese , R. P. Ratnasingam

We study the partition of energy between waves and vortices in stratified turbulence, with or without rotation, for a variety of parameters, focusing on the behavior of the waves and vortices in the inverse cascade of energy towards the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-01 Corentin Herbert , Raffaele Marino , Duane Rosenberg , Annick Pouquet

We consider a classical problem about dynamic instability that leads to the Langmuir circulation. The problem statement assumes that there is initially a wind-driven shear flow and a plane surface wave propagating in the direction of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-26 S. S. Vergeles , I. A. Vointsev

To investigate the formation mechanism of energy spectra of internal waves in the oceans, direct numerical simulations are performed. The simulations are based on the reduced dynamical equations of rotating stratified turbulence. In the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-10 Yuri V. Lvov , Naoto Yokoyama

In this paper, we study the dynamical irregularity of the locally anisotropic spherical fluids in the context of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory. We aim to describe the causes of energy-density irregularity of self-gravitating fluids and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Z. Yousaf , Kazuharu Bamba , Mansoor Alshehri , A. Farhat

Wind-forced near-inertial waves (NIWs) propagate through a sea of mesoscale eddies, which can fundamentally alter their evolution. The nature of this NIW--mesoscale interaction depends on how dispersive the waves are. For weakly dispersive…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Scott Conn , Jörn Callies

We study the nonlinear growth of kinetic gyroresonance instability of cosmic rays (CRs) induced by large scale compressible turbulence. This feedback of cosmic rays on turbulence was shown to induce an important scattering mechanism in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-28 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

We consider a generic dispersive massive gravity theory and numerically study its resulting modified energy and strain spectra of tensor gravitational waves (GWs) sourced by (i) fully developed turbulence during the electroweak phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-12 Yutong He , Axel Brandenburg , Aditya Sinha

We study acoustic-gravity waves in a quasi-isothermal atmosphere in the presence of a weak random addition to the vertical temperature profile, which simulates the real atmosphere of the Earth at altitudes greater than $\sim 200$ km. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-23 V. M. Lashkin , O. K. Cheremnykh

We present results from direct numerical simulations of the Boussinesq equations in the presence of rotation and/or stratification, both in the vertical direction. The runs are forced isotropically and randomly at small scales and have…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Marino , P. D. Mininni , D. L. Rosenberg , A. Pouquet

Rotating turbulence is commonly known for being dominated by geostrophic vortices that are invariant along the rotation axis and undergo inverse cascade. Yet, it has recently been shown to sustain fully three-dimensional states with a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-11 Thomas Le Reun , Benjamin Favier , Michael Le Bars

Gravitational waves are investigated in Intrinsic Time Geometrodynamics. This theory has a non-vanishing physical Hamiltonian generating intrinsic time development in our expanding universe, and four-covariance is explicitly broken by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-11 Eyo Eyo Ita , Chopin Soo , Hoi-Lai Yu

We study here the propagation of long waves in the presence of vorticity. In the irrotational framework, the Green-Naghdi equations (also called Serre or fully nonlinear Boussinesq equations) are the standard model for the propagation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-14 David Lannes , Fabien Marche

We study the propagation of gravitational waves carrying arbitrary information through isotropic cosmologies. The waves are modelled as small perturbations of the background Robertson-Walker geometry. The perfect fluid matter distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 P. A. Hogan , E. M. O'Shea

We present a new derivation of the kinetic equation for weak, non-hydrostatic internal gravity wave turbulence. The equation is equivalent to the one obtained by Caillol & Zeitlin (2000), but it takes a canonical form. We show that it…

The Earth's Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) is a natural example of wave-mean flow interaction and corresponds to the alternating directions of winds in the equatorial stratosphere. It is due to internal gravity waves (IGW) generated in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Florentin Daniel , Daniel Lecoanet

The solar surface is a continuous source of internal gravity waves (IGWs). IGWs are believed to supply the bulk of the wave energy for the lower solar atmosphere, but their existence and role for the energy balance of the upper layers is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 G. Vigeesh , M. Roth , O. Steiner , B. Fleck

Consistency relations of internal gravity waves (IGWs) describe ratios of cross-spectral quantities as functions of frequency. It has been a common practice to evaluate the measured or simulated signals (e.g., time series of velocity,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Guangyao Wang , Yue Wu , Yulin Pan , Kayhan Momeni , Joseph Skitka , Dimitris Menemenlis , Brian K. Arbic , William R. Peltier

In this paper, we derive consistent shallow water equations for bi-layer flows of Newtonian fluids flowing down a ramp. We carry out a complete spectral analysis of steady flows in the low frequency regime and show the occurence of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-28 Marc Boutounet , Pascal Noble , Jean-Paul Vila