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On the interaction between internal gravity waves and a shear flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

C. J. R. Garrett
C. J. R. Garrett
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Silver Street, Cambridge
Now at: The Institute of Oceanography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Abstract

The theory of wave action conservation is summarized, and its interpretation in terms of the working, against the rate of strain of the basic flow, of an interaction stress associated with the waves is discussed. Usually this interaction stress is identical with the radiation stress of a uniform plane wave. The problem of internal gravity wave propagation in an incompressible, stratified Boussinesq liquid is considered in detail for a more general basic flow than has hitherto been treated, and the interaction stress is derived. One component of the interaction stress tensor is only equal to the corresponding component of the radiation stress tensor if we include in the latter, in addition to the Reynolds stress, a term associated with the redistribution of matter, on the average, by the wave. Two other components of the radiation stress tensor are modified in a similar manner, but the corresponding components of the interaction stress tensor are undefined, and so no comparison is possible.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 34 , Issue 4 , 23 December 1968 , pp. 711 - 720
Copyright
© 1968 Cambridge University Press

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