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A coupled system composed of a Newtonian fluid located on a sinusoidally-forced elastic solid is studied analytically and numerically. The focus is on the transient evolution from the beginning of the forced oscillations and on the periodic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-16 Aaron D'Cruz , Pierre Ricco

Scattering of random surface gravity waves by small amplitude topography in the presence of a uniform current is investigated theoretically. This problem is relevant to ocean waves propagation on shallow continental shelves where tidal…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rudy Magne , Fabrice Ardhuin

Real world water waves often propagate on current. And, the measurement of waves and current is an important task for coastal and marine engineers. Modern marine measurement technologies (i.e. unmanned autonomous vehicles, drones) often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-31 David M. Kouskoulas , Yaron Toledo

We study the transition from fluid at rest to turbulence in a rotating water cylinder. We show that the energy, injected at a given height, is transported by inertial wave packets through the fluid volume. These waves propagate at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Itamar Kolvin , Kobi Cohen , Yuval Vardi , Eran Sharon

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

Transmission spectroscopy is a key technique in the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres and has been widely applied to planets undergoing hydrodynamic escape. While a robust analytic theory exists for transmission spectra of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Leonardos Gkouvelis

The elliptical instability is an instability of elliptical streamlines, which can be excited by large-scale tidal flows in rotating fluid bodies, and excites inertial waves if the dimensionless tidal amplitude ($\epsilon$) is sufficiently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-08 N. B. de Vries , A. J. Barker , R. Hollerbach

The atmospheres of planets (including Earth) and the outer layers of stars have often been treated in radiative transfer as plane-parallel media, instead of spherical shells, which can lead to inaccuracy, e.g. limb darkening. We give an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael J. Caola

The aim of this article is to study the attenuation of transient low-frequency waves in 2D lattices in both plane and antiplane problems. The main idea of this article is that analytical solutions to problems of mechanics of discrete…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Nadezhda I. Aleksandrova

The scattering of inertia-gravity waves by large-scale geostrophic turbulence in a rapidly rotating, strongly stratified fluid leads to the diffusion of wave energy on the constant-frequency cone in wavenumber space. We derive the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Hossein Kafiabad , Miles A. C. Savva , Jacques Vanneste

We propose wave and ray approaches for modelling mid- and high- frequency structural vibrations through smoothed joints on thin shell cylindrical ridges. The models both emerge from a simplified classical shell theory setting. The ray model…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-17 Niels Sondergaard , David Chappell

Several planetary bodies in our solar system undergo a forced libration owing to gravitational interactions with their orbital companions, leading to complex fluid motions in their metallic liquid cores or subsurface oceans. In this study,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-14 Yufeng Lin , Jerome Noir

We perform one of the first studies into the nonlinear evolution of tidally excited inertial waves in a uniformly rotating fluid body, exploring a simplified model of the fluid envelope of a planet (or the convective envelope of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 B. Favier , A. J. Barker , C. Baruteau , G. I. Ogilvie

We study the paraxial wave equation with a randomly perturbed index of refraction, which can model the propagation of a wave beam in a turbulent medium. The random perturbation is a stationary and isotropic process with a general form of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

Efforts at modelling the propagation of seismic waves in half-spaces with continuously varying properties have been mostly focused on shear-horizontal waves. Here a sagittaly polarized (Rayleigh type) wave travels along a symmetry axis (and…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-11-29 Michel Destrade

Rotational mixing, the key process in stellar evolution, transports angular momentum and chemical elements in stellar radiative zones. In the past two decades, an emphasis has been placed on the turbulent transport induced by the vertical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Junho Park , Vincent Prat , Stéphane Mathis

Wave scattering phenomena are ubiquitous to almost all Sciences, from Biology to Physics. When an incident wave scatters off of an obstacle, it is partially reflected and partially transmitted. Since the scatterer absorbs part of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-07 Theo Torres , Sam Patrick , Antonin Coutant , Mauricio Richartz , Edmund W. Tedford , Silke Weinfurtner

In rotating stars and planets, excitation of inertial waves in convective envelopes provides an important channel for tidal dissipation, but the dissipation rate due to inertial waves depends erratically on the tidal frequency. Tidal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yufeng Lin , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We numerically study the scattering coefficients of linear water waves on stationary flows above a localized obstacle. We compare the scattering on trans- and subcritical flows, and then focus on the latter which have been used in recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 Scott Robertson , Florent Michel , Renaud Parentani

We explore the near-resonant interaction of inertial waves with geostrophic modes in rotating fluids via numerical and theoretical analysis. When a single inertial wave is imposed, we find that some geostrophic modes are unstable above a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Thomas Le Reun , Basile Gallet , Benjamin Favier , Michael Le Bars