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Periodic travelling waves at the free surface of an incompressible inviscid fluid in two dimensions under gravity are numerically computed for an arbitrary vorticity distribution. The fluid domain over one period is conformally mapped from…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-26 Alex Doak , Vera Mikyoung Hur , Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck

We explore the fundamental flow structure of inclined gravity currents with direct numerical simulations. A velocity maximum naturally divides the current into inner and outer shear layers, which are weakly coupled by exchange of momentum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Lianzheng Cui , Graham O. Hughes , Maarten van Reeuwijk

The behaviour of internal waves propagating in a background shear flow is studied in the case where the direction of shear is orthogonal to gravity. Ray-tracing theory is used to predict properties of the wave state at locations where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-03 Samuel F. Lewin , Alexis K. Kaminski , Arun Balakrishna , Miles M. P. Couchman

The motion of an interface separating two fluids under the effect of electric fields is a subject that has picked the attention of researchers from different areas. While there is an abundance of studies investigating the free surface wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-29 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Tao Gao , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr

Here we have considered the effects of shallowness of the domain as well as the air-water free surface on the stratified shear instabilities of the fluid underneath. First, we numerically solve the non-Boussinesq Taylor-Goldstein equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-11 Mihir H. Shete , Anirban Guha

Quasigeostrophic flows are induced by spatial variations in interior potential vorticity and boundary buoyancy. We begin by developing the geostrophic turbulence theory of boundary buoyancy anomalies in a fluid with vanishing potential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-21 Houssam Yassin

Consider a two-dimensional stratified solitary wave propagating through a body of water that is bounded below by an impermeable ocean bed. In this work, we study how such a wave can be reconstructed from data consisting of the wave speed,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-02 Robin Ming Chen , Samuel Walsh

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

Asteroseismology has reached a level of accuracy that may allow us to detect the effect of a deep magnetic field on oscillation modes. We thus aim to develop an asymptotic theory for short-wavelength waves in radiative zones of rotating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-15 Aurélien Valade , Vincent Prat , Stéphane Mathis , Kyle Augustson

In the framework of the canonical model of hydrodynamics, where fluid is assumed to be ideal and incompressible, waves are potential, two-dimensional, and symmetric, the authors have recently reported the existence of a new type of gravity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-29 Vasyl P. Lukomsky , Ivan S. Gandzha

We present experimental and computational studies of the propagation of internal waves in a stratified fluid with an exponential density profile that models the deep ocean. The buoyancy frequency profile $N(z)$ (proportional to the square…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-09-04 M. S. Paoletti , Harry L. Swinney

Starting from the hydrostatic Boussinesq equations, we derive a time-averaged `hydrostatic wave equation' that describes the propagation of inertia-gravity internal waves through quasi-geostrophic flow. The derivation uses a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-11 Gregory L. Wagner , Gwenael Ferrando , William R. Young

Slow flows of an ideal compressible fluid (gas) in the gravity field in the presence of two isentropic layers are considered, with a small difference of specific entropy between them. Assuming irrotational flows in each layer [that is ${\bf…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 V. P. Ruban

This study investigates nonlinear gravity waves in the compressible atmosphere from the Earth's surface to the deep atmosphere. These waves are effectively described by Grimshaw's dissipative modulation equations which provide the basis for…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-04-27 Mark Schlutow , Erik Wahlén

We consider three-dimensional inviscid irrotational flow in a two layer fluid under the effects of gravity and surface tension, where the upper fluid is bounded above by a rigid lid and the lower fluid is bounded below by a flat bottom. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Dag Nilsson

The division of the near-field and far-field zones for electromagnetic waves is important for simplifying theoretical calculations and applying far-field results. In this paper, we have studied the far-field asymptotic behaviors of dipole…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-01 Chao Li , Teng Wei Zhang , Huai Yu Wang , Xue Hua Wang

By employing a local two-fluid theory, we investigate an obliquely propagating electromagnetic instability in the lower hybrid frequency range driven by cross-field current or relative drifts between electrons and ions. The theory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hantao Ji , Russell Kulsrud , William Fox , Masaaki Yamada

Evidence from seismic studies, mineral physics, thermal evolution models and geomagnetic observations is inconclusive about the presence of a stably stratified layer at the top of the Earth's fluid outer core. Such a convectively stable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Fleur Seuren , Santiago A. Triana , Jérémy Rekier , Véronique Dehant , Tim Van Hoolst

This paper presents our investigation into the modification of a finite-width internal gravity wave beam arising from triadic resonance instability. We present both experimental and weakly non-linear modelling to examine this instability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-21 K. M. Grayson , Stuart B. Dalziel , Andrew G. W. Lawrie

We report on an instability arising when surface gravity waves propagate in a rotating frame. The Stokes drift associated to the uniform wave field, together with global rotation, drives a mean flow in the form of a horizontally invariant…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-11-26 Kannabiran Seshasayanan , Basile Gallet