Decay of an internal tide due to random topography in the ocean

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 678, Issue , 2011, Pages 271-293

  Bühler, Oliver ^a   Holmes Cerfon, Miranda ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internal waves; topographic effects; wave scattering

Indexed keywords

DECAY (ORGANIC); POWER SPECTRUM; RANDOM PROCESSES; TIDES;

GAUSSIAN RANDOM PROCESS; INTERNAL WAVES; IRREGULAR BOUNDARY; RADIATION CONDITION; SCATTERING PROCESS; SPECTRAL COMPUTATIONS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; WAVE SCATTERING;

TOPOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; INTERNAL TIDE; INTERNAL WAVE; STRATIFICATION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 79960135617     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.115     Document Type: Article

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