Resonant triad model for studying evolution of the energy spectrum among a large number of internal waves

Internal waves are generally accepted to be responsible for a large fraction of mixing in the deep ocean. Internal waves interact nonlinearly with one another, exchanging energy among themselves to create the background internal wave spectrum. The most important mechanism resulting in the transfer of energy from one wave to another is believed to be resonant triad interactions. In this paper we consider a large number of resonantly interacting triads in order to investigate the evolution of the energy spectrum due to solely resonant triad interactions. To this end we solve the evolution equations for a large number of resonant triads to determine the temporal evolution of the energy distribution among the various possible wave numbers and frequencies. Our model involves internal waves with frequencies spanning the range of possible frequencies, i.e., between a maximum of the buoyancy frequency N for horizontal wave vectors (vertical motion) to a minimum of the inertial frequency f for vertical wave vectors (horizontal motion) [two limiting cases]. Because of the inclusion of high-frequency waves we cannot make the hydrostatic approximation. We investigate the evolution of the wave’s amplitudes to predict the evolution of the internal wave energy spectrum.     

Permanent Wave Structures and Resonant Triads in a Layered Fluid

A closed three layer fluid with small density differences between the layers has two closely related modes of gravity wave propagation. The nonlinear interactions between the wave modes are investigated, particularly the nearly resonant or significant interactions. Permanent wave solutions are calculated, and it is shown that a permanent wave of the slower mode can generate resonantly a wave harmonic of the faster mode. The equations governing resonant triads of the two modes are derived, and solutions having a permanent structure are calculated from them. It is found that some resonant triad solutions vanish when the triad is embedded in the set of all harmonics with wavenumbers in its neighborhood     

On Wave Interactions,I: Explosive Resonant Triads

This paper considers the phenomenon of explosive resonant triads in weakly nonlinear, dispersive wave systems. These nearly linear waves with slowly varying amplitudes become unbounded in finite time. It is shown that such interactions are much stronger than previously thought. These waves can be thought of as a nonlinear instability in the sense that a weakly nonlinear perturbation to some system grows to such a magnitude that the behavior of the system is governed by strongly nonlinear effects. This may occur for systems that are linearly or neutrally stable. This resolution is contrasted with previous resolutions of the problem, which assumed such perturbations remained large amplitude, nearly linear waves. Analytical and numerical evidence is presented to support these claims.     

Resonant three-wave interactions in non-linear hyper-elastic fluid-filled tubes

A multiple-scales method is used to derive the Three-Wave Interaction (TWI) equations describing resonantly interacting triads in nonlinear hyper-elastic fluid-filled tubes. The tube wall is assumed to be an axially-tethered nonlinear membraneous cylindrical shell for which the resultant stresses can be determined by a strain-energy functional. The fluid within the tube is assumed to be two-dimensional, axi-symmetric and inviscid. We show that small-but-finite amplitude strongly dispersive pressure wave packets can continuously exchange energy in a resonant triad while conserving total energy. For a Mooney-Rivlin shell wall the theory presented predicts a short wavelength cutoff on the order of the tube radius. Thus pressure pulses containing wavelengths on the order of the tube radius and longer may contain resonantly interacting modes. Special solutions are presented: temporally developing modes, pump-wave approximations and explosively unstable steadily-traveling wave packets.     

On the homotopy multiple-variable method and its applications in the interactions of nonlinear gravity waves

The basic ideas of a homotopy-based multiple-variable method is proposed and applied to investigate the nonlinear interactions of periodic traveling waves. Mathematically, this method does not depend upon any small physical parameters at all and thus is more general than the traditional multiple-scale perturbation techniques. Physically, it is found that, for a fully developed wave system, the amplitudes of all wave components are finite even if the wave resonance condition given by Phillips (1960) is exactly satisfied. Besides, it is revealed that there exist multiple resonant waves, and that the amplitudes of resonant wave may be much smaller than those of primary waves so that the resonant waves sometimes contain rather small part of wave energy. Furthermore, a wave resonance condition for arbitrary numbers of traveling waves with large wave amplitudes is given, which logically contains Phillips’ four-wave resonance condition but opens a way to investigate the strongly nonlinear interaction of more than four traveling waves with large amplitudes. This work also illustrates that the homotopy multiple-variable method is helpful to gain solutions with important physical meanings of nonlinear problems, if the multiple-variables are properly defined with clear physical meanings.     

Resonant Transfer of Energy between Nonlinear Waves in Neighboring Pycnoclines

The interaction of weakly nonlinear, long internal gravity waves in neighboring pycnoclines is studied. Two coupled equations which describe the evolution of the wave amplitudes are derived. These equations are shown to possess three conserved quantities. The numerical results demonstrate the existence of two types of periodic nonlinear wave solutions when mode-two waves propagate along each pycnocline with nearly equal speeds. The energy transfer between these resonant waves is discussed for two pycnocline separations.     

圆柱形容器中自由表面波的三波内共振相互作用

由Luke变分原理导出了圆柱形容器中自由毛细重力表面波的基本方程.首先对速度势和自由面波高作Galerkin展开,用多重尺度法导出了控制方程前二阶摄动方程,在此基础上讨论了三个波二阶内共振的非线性相互作用,导出了三波内共振的非线性耦合作用方程和守恒律.针对非退化的作用方程,分析了相平面上平衡点的位置,研究了参数对应共振与非共振的各种情况,在不同参数情况下求出二阶作用方程的稳态解并分析了解的稳定性态,还讨论了只在有限时间内有效的解.分析表明,在非退化情况下,由于初始条件不同,3个波之间能量传递的模式不尽相同,有可能能量在3波之间周期性传递,亦可能单波的能量有衰减或增长.     

Interaction of Elastic Waves

We derive and analyze asymptotic equations for the interaction of weakly nonlinear elastic waves. We show that there are resonant triads involving two transverse and one longitudinal wave provided the wave speeds satisfy a certain irrationality condition. We study initial value and signaling problems, and the interaction of sawtooth wave packets.     

弹性固体和充满两种互不相溶粘性流体的多孔固体之间界面的反射和折射及其衰减波

在充满两种互不相溶粘性流体的多孔固体中,研究弹性波的传播.用3个数性的势函数描述3个纵波的传播,用1个矢性的势函数单独描述横波的传播.根据这些势函数,在不同的组合相中,定义出质点的位移.可以看出,可能存在3个纵波和1个横波.在一个弹性固体半空间与一个充满两种互不相溶粘性流体的多孔固体半空间之间,研究其界面上入射纵波和横波所引起的反射和折射现象.由于孔隙流体中有粘性,折射到多孔介质中的波,朝垂直界面方向偏离.将入射波引起的反射波和折射波的波幅比,作为非奇异的线性代数方程组计算.进一步通过这些波幅比,计算出各个被离散波在入射波能量中所占的份额.通过一个特殊的数值模型,计算出波幅比和能量比系数随入射角的变化.超过SV波的临界入射角,反射波P将不再出现.越过界面的能量守恒原理得到了验证.绘出了图形并对不同孔隙饱和度以及频率的变化,讨论它们对能量分配的影响.     

Resonant Interactions between Vortical Flows and Water Waves. Part I: Deep Water

Any weak, steady vortical flow is a solution to leading order of the inviscid fluid equations with a free surface, so long as this flow has horizontal streamlines coinciding with the undisturbed free surface. This work considers the propagation of irrotational surface gravity waves when such a vortical flow is present. In particular, when the vortical flow and the irrotational surface waves are both periodic, resonant interactions can occur between the various components of the flow. The periodic vortical component of the flow is proposed as a model for more complicated vortical flows that would affect surface waves in the ocean, such as the turbulence in the wake of a ship. These resonant interactions are studied in two dimensions, both in the limit of deep water (Part I) and shallow water (Part II). For deep water, the resonant set of surface waves is governed by “triad-like” ordinary differential equations for the wave amplitudes, whose coefficients depend on the underlying rotational flow. These coefficients are calculated explicitly and the stability of various configurations of waves is discussed. The effect of three dimensionality is also briefly mentioned.     

Resonant instability and nonlinear wave interactions in electrically forced jets

We investigate the problem of linear temporal instability of the modes that satisfy the dyad resonance conditions and the associated nonlinear wave interactions in jets driven by either a constant or a variable external electric field. A mathematical model, which is developed and used for the temporally growing modes with resonance and their nonlinear wave interactions in electrically driven jet flows, leads to equations for the unknown amplitudes of such waves. These equations are solved for both water and glycerol jet cases, and the expressions for the dependent variables of the corresponding modes are determined. The results of the generated data for these dependent variables versus time indicate, in particular, that the instability resulted from the nonlinear interactions of such modes is mostly quite strong but can also lead to significant reduction in the jet radius.     

Nonlinearly Coupled KdV Equations Describing the Interaction of Equatorial and Midlatitude Rossby Waves

Amplitude equations governing the nonlinear resonant interaction of equatorial baroclinic and barotropic Rossby waves were derived by Majda and Biello and used as a model for long range interactions （teleconnections） between the tropical and midlatitude troposphere. An overview of that derivation is nonlinear wave theory, but not in atmospheric presented and geared to readers versed in sciences. In the course of the derivation, two other sets of asymptotic equations are presented： the long equatorial wave equations and the weakly nonlinear, long equatorial wave equations. A linear transformation recasts the amplitude equations as nonlinear and linearly coupled KdV equations governing the amplitude of two types of modes, each of which consists of a coupled tropical/midlatitude flow. In the limit of Rossby waves with equal dispersion, the transformed amplitude equations become two KdV equations coupled only through nonlinear fluxes. Four numerical integrations are presented which show （i） the interaction of two solitons, one from either mode, （ii） and （iii） the interaction of a soliton in the presence of different mean wind shears, and （iv） the interaction of two solitons mediated by the presence of a mean wind shear.     

Resonantly Interacting,Weakly Nonlinear Hyperbolic Waves. II. Several Space Variables

A uniformly valid asymptotic theory of resonantly interacting high-frequency waves for nonlinear hyperbolic systems in several space dimensions is developed. When applied to the equations of two-dimensional compressible fluid flow, this theory both predicts the geometric location of the new sound waves produced from the resonant interaction of sound waves and vorticity waves as well as yielding a simplified system which governs the evolution of the amplitudes. In this important special case, this system is two Burgers equations coupled by a linear integral operator with known kernel given by the vortex strength of the shear wave. Several inherently multidimensional assumptions for the phases are needed in this theory, and theoretical examples are given which delineate these assumptions. Furthermore, explicit necessary and sufficient conditions for the validity of the earlier noninteracting wave theory of Hunter and Keller are derived; these explicit conditions indicate that generally waves resonate and interact in several dimensions.     

The Effect of Meridional and Vertical Shear on the Interaction of Equatorial Baroclinic and Barotropic Rossby Waves

Simplified asymptotic equations describing the resonant nonlinear interaction of equatorial Rossby waves with barotropic Rossby waves with significant midlatitude projection in the presence of arbitrary vertically and meridionally sheared zonal mean winds are developed. The three mode equations presented here are an extension of the two mode equations derived by Majda and Biello [ 1 ] and arise in the physically relevant regime produced by seasonal heating when the vertical (baroclinic) mean shear has both symmetric and antisymmetric components; the dynamics of the equatorial baroclinic and both symmetric and antisymmetric barotropic waves is developed. The equations described here are novel in several respects and involve a linear dispersive wave system coupled through quadratic nonlinearities. Numerical simulations are used to explore the effect of antisymmetric baroclinic shear on the exchange of energy between equatorial baroclinic and barotropic waves; the main effect of moderate antisymmetric winds is to shift the barotropic waves meridionally. A purely meridionally antisymmetric mean shear yields highly asymmetric waves which often propagate across the equator. The two mode equations appropriate to Ref. [ 1 ] are shown to have analytic solitary wave solutions and some representative examples with their velocity fields are presented.     

On the resonant reflection of weak,nonlinear sound waves off an entropy wave

We analyze the resonant reflection of very weak, nonlinear sound waves off a weak sawtooth entropy wave for spatially periodic solutions of the one‐dimensional, nonisentropic gas dynamics equations. The case of an entropy wave with a sawtooth profile is of interest because the oscillations of the reflected sound waves are nondispersive with frequency independent of their wavenumber, leading to an unusual type of nonlinear dynamics. On an appropriate long time scale, we show that a complex amplitude function for the spatial profile of the sound waves satisfies a degenerate quasilinear Schrödinger equation. We present some numerical solutions of this equation that illustrate the generation of small spatial scales by a resonant four‐wave cascade and front propagation in compactly supported solutions.     

On Wave Interactions II. Explosive Resonant Triads in Fluid Mechanics

This paper considers the occurrence of explosive resonant triads in fluid mechanics. These are weakly nonlinear waves whose amplitudes become unbounded in finite time. Previous work is expanded to include interfacial flow systems with continuously varying basic velocities and densities. The first paper in this series [10] discussed the surprisingly strong singular nature of explosive triads. Many of the problems to be studied here will be found to have additional singularities, and the techniques for analyzing these difficulties will be developed. This will involve the concept of a critical layer in a fluid, a level at which a wave phase speed equals the unperturbed fluid velocity in the direction of propagation. Examples of such waves in this context are presented.     

Quasiperiodic Solutions in Weakly Nonlinear Gas Dynamics. Part I. Numerical Results in the Inviscid Case

We exhibit and study a new class of solutions for the one-dimensional inviscid Euler equations of Gas Dynamics in a bounded domain with reflecting boundary conditions, in the weakly nonlinear regime. These solutions do not present the usual wave breaking leading to shock formation, even though they have nontrivial acoustic components and operate in the nonlinear regime. We also show that these 'Non Breaking for All Times' (NBAT) solutions are globally attracting for the long time evolution of the equations.
The Euler equations of Gas Dynamics (in the weakly nonlinear regime with reflecting boundary conditions) can be reduced to an inviscid Burgers-like equation for the acoustic component, with a linear integral self-coupling term and periodic boundary conditions. The integral term arises as a result of the nonlinear resonant interactions of the sound waves with the entropy variations in the flow. This integral term turns out to be weakly dispersive. The NBAT solutions arise as a result of the interplay of this dispersion with the 'standard' wave-breaking nonlinearity in the Burgers equation.
In addition to the previously known weakly nonlinear standing acoustic wave NBAT solutions, we found a family of new, never-breaking, attracting solutions by direct numerical simulation. These are quasiperiodic in time with two periods. In phase space these solutions lie on a surface 'centered' around the standing waves. Only two standing-wave solutions (the maximum amplitude and the trivial vanishing wave) are in the attracting set. All of the others are quasiperiodic in time with two periods.     

Modulational Instability in the Whitham Equation for Water Waves

We show that periodic traveling waves with sufficiently small amplitudes of the Whitham equation, which incorporates the dispersion relation of surface water waves and the nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, are spectrally unstable to long‐wavelengths perturbations if the wave number is greater than a critical value, bearing out the Benjamin–Feir instability of Stokes waves; they are spectrally stable to square integrable perturbations otherwise. The proof involves a spectral perturbation of the associated linearized operator with respect to the Floquet exponent and the small‐amplitude parameter. We extend the result to related, nonlinear dispersive equations.     

Modulation theory solution for nonlinearly resonant,fifth‐order Korteweg–de Vries,nonclassical, traveling dispersive shock waves

A new class of resonant dispersive shock waves was recently identified as solutions of the Kawahara equation— a Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) type nonlinear wave equation with third‐ and fifth‐order spatial derivatives— in the regime of nonconvex, linear dispersion. Linear resonance resulting from the third‐ and fifth‐order terms in the Kawahara equation was identified as the key ingredient for nonclassical dispersive shock wave solutions. Here, nonlinear wave (Whitham) modulation theory is used to construct approximate nonclassical traveling dispersive shock wave (TDSW) solutions of the fifth‐ order KdV equation without the third derivative term, hence without any linear resonance. A self‐similar, simple wave modulation solution of the fifth order, weakly nonlinear KdV–Whitham equations is obtained that matches a constant to a heteroclinic traveling wave via a partial dispersive shock wave so that the TDSW is interpreted as a nonlinear resonance. The modulation solution is compared with full numerical solutions, exhibiting excellent agreement. The TDSW is shown to be modulationally stable in the presence of sufficiently small third‐order dispersion. The Kawahara–Whitham modulation equations transition from hyperbolic to elliptic type for sufficiently large third‐order dispersion, which provides a possible route for the TDSW to exhibit modulational instability.     

Envelope Solitary Waves and Periodic Waves in the AB Equations

This article deals with the envelope solitary waves and periodic waves in the AB equations that serve as model equations describing marginally unstable baroclinic wave packets in geophysical fluids and also ultra‐short pulses in nonlinear optics. An envelope solitary wave has a width proportional to its velocity and inversely proportional to its amplitude. The velocity of the envelope solitary wave is partially dependent on its amplitude in the sense that the amplitude determines the upper or lower limit of the velocity. When two envelope solitary waves collide, they survive the collision and retain their identities except for a shift in the positions of both the envelopes and the carrier waves. The periodic wave solutions in sine wave form may be stable or unstable depending upon the wave parameters. When the sine wave is destabilized by small perturbations, its long‐time evolution shows a Fermi–Pasta–Ulam‐type oscillation.