Interaction of Non-Saturated Surface Gravity Waves with Internal Waves

1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Alex Thomson ◽  
Bruce J. West
Keyword(s):  
Internal Waves ◽  
Gravity Waves ◽  
Surface Gravity ◽  
Surface Gravity Waves ◽  
Saturated Surface

Radiation of internal waves from groups of surface gravity waves

2017 ◽  
Vol 829 ◽  
pp. 280-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Haney ◽  
W. R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Internal Waves ◽  
Energy Flux ◽  
Gravity Waves ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Stokes Drift ◽  
Surface Gravity ◽  
Fourth Power ◽  
Buoyancy Frequency ◽  
Surface Gravity Waves ◽  
Short Period

Groups of surface gravity waves induce horizontally varying Stokes drift that drives convergence of water ahead of the group and divergence behind. The mass flux divergence associated with spatially variable Stokes drift pumps water downwards in front of the group and upwards in the rear. This ‘Stokes pumping’ creates a deep Eulerian return flow that sets the isopycnals below the wave group in motion and generates a trailing wake of internal gravity waves. We compute the energy flux from surface to internal waves by finding solutions of the wave-averaged Boussinesq equations in two and three dimensions forced by Stokes pumping at the surface. The two-dimensional (2-D) case is distinct from the 3-D case in that the stratification must be very strong, or the surface waves very slow for any internal wave (IW) radiation at all. On the other hand, in three dimensions, IW radiation always occurs, but with a larger energy flux as the stratification and surface wave (SW) amplitude increase or as the SW period is shorter. Specifically, the energy flux from SWs to IWs varies as the fourth power of the SW amplitude and of the buoyancy frequency, and is inversely proportional to the fifth power of the SW period. Using parameters typical of short period swell (e.g. 8 s SW period with 1 m amplitude) we find that the energy flux is small compared to both the total energy in a typical SW group and compared to the total IW energy. Therefore this coupling between SWs and IWs is not a significant sink of energy for the SWs nor a source for IWs. In an extreme case (e.g. 4 m amplitude 20 s period SWs) this coupling is a significant source of energy for IWs with frequency close to the buoyancy frequency.

Internal waves coupled to surface gravity waves in three dimensions

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 893-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Craig ◽  
Philippe Guyenne ◽  
Catherine Sulem
Keyword(s):  
Internal Waves ◽  
Gravity Waves ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Surface Gravity ◽  
Surface Gravity Waves

On the interaction of internal waves and surface gravity waves

1974 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 773-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Lewis ◽  
Bruce M. Lake ◽  
Denny R. S. Ko
Keyword(s):  
Surface Wave ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Internal Wave ◽  
Internal Waves ◽  
Gravity Waves ◽  
Surface Gravity ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Surface Gravity Waves ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One

The perturbation of pre-existing surface gravity waves caused by the presence of an internal wave was studied both experimentally and analytically. An extensive series of experiments was performed, and quantitative results were obtained for the one-dimensional monochromatic interaction of internal waves and surface gravity waves. Internal wave-induced surface slope, amplitude and wavenumber modulations were measured for a wide range of interaction conditions. A complementary theoretical analysis, based on the conservation approach of Whitham (1962) and Longuet-Higgins & Stewart (1960,1961), was performed and a closed form solution obtained for the one-dimensional wave interaction. Both the theory and the experiment demonstrate that the effect increases with interaction distance. The maximum interaction effect is found to occur when the phase speed of the internal wave and the group velocity of the surface wave are matched. The phase of the internal wave at which maximum surface-wave modulation occurs is found to be a sensitive and continuous function of the relative wave speeds. The experimental data are in good agreement with the present theoretical analysis.

scholarly journals Modeling and control of surface gravity waves in a model of a copper converter

2008 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 1696-1710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Godoy ◽  
Axel Osses ◽  
Jaime H. Ortega ◽  
Alvaro Valencia
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Waves ◽  
Surface Gravity ◽  
Modeling And Control ◽  
Copper Converter ◽  
Surface Gravity Waves ◽  
And Control

Irrotational, progressive surface gravity waves near the limiting height

1973 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Sasaki ◽  
Takashi Murakami
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Waves ◽  
Surface Gravity ◽  
Surface Gravity Waves
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