Calculating energy flux in internal solitary waves with an application to reflectance

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 559-580

  Lamb, Kevin G ^a   Nguyen, Van T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY FLUXES; INTERNAL SOLITARY WAVES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY DENSITY; SLOPING BOTTOM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TWO LAYERS; VELOCITY-PRESSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; KINETIC ENERGY; REFLECTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLITONS; WAVES;

POTENTIAL ENERGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY FLUX; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERNAL WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL ENERGY; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SOLITARY WAVE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIFICATION; WAVE MODELING; WAVE REFLECTION;

EID: 67649989053     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3882.1     Document Type: Article

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