A set of Boussinesq-type equations for interfacial internal waves in two-layer stratified fluid

Many new forms of Boussinesq-type equations have been developed to extend the range of applicability of the classical Boussinesq equations to deeper water in the study of the surface waves. One approach was used by Nwogu (1993. J. Wtrw. Port Coastal and Oc. Eng. 119, 618--638) to improve the linear dispersion characteristics of the classical Boussinesq equations by using the velocity at an arbitrary level as the velocity variable in derived equations and obtain a new form of Boussinesq-type equations, in which the dispersion property can be optimized by choosing the velocity variable at an adequate level. In this paper, a set of Boussinesq-type equations describing the motions of the interfacial waves propagating alone the interface between two homogeneous incompressible and inviscid fluids of different densities with a free surface and a variable water depth were derived using a method similar to that used by Nwogu (1993. J. Wtrw. Port Coastal and Oc. Eng. 119, 618--638) for surface waves. The equations were expressed in terms of the displacements of free surface and density-interface, and the velocity vectors at arbitrary vertical locations in the upper layer and the lower layer (or depth-averaged velocity vector across each layer) of a two-layer fluid. As expected, the equations derived in the present work include as special cases those obtained by Nwogu (1993, J. Wtrw. Port Coastal and Oc. Eng. 119, 618-638) and Peregrine (1967, J. Fluid Mech. 27, 815-827) for surface waves when the density of the upper fluid is taken as zero.     

有限深两层流体中内孤立波造波实验及其理论模型

将置于大尺度密度分层水槽上下层流体中的两块垂直板反方向平推, 以基于 Miyata-Choi-Camassa (MCC)理论解的内孤立波诱导上下层流体中的层平均水平速度作为其运动速度, 发展了一种振幅可控的双推板内孤立波实验室造波方法. 在此基础上, 针对有限深两层流体中定态内孤立波 Korteweg-de Vries (KdV), 扩展KdV (eKdV), MCC和修改的Kdv (mKdV)理论的适用性条件等问题, 开展了系列实验研究.结果表明, 对以水深为基准定义的非线性参数ε 和色散参数μ, 存在一个临界色散参数μ₀, 当μ < μ₀ 时, KdV理论适用于ε ≤μ 的情况, eKdV理论适用于μ < ε ≤√μ 的情况, 而MCC理论适用于ε > √μ 的情况, 而且当μ ≥μ₀ 时MCC理论也是适用的.结果进一步表明, 当上下层流体深度比并不接近其临界值时, mKdV理论主要适用于内孤立波振幅接近其理论极限振幅的情况, 但这时MCC理论同样适用.本项研究定量地表征了四类内孤立波理论的适用性条件, 为采用何种理论来表征实际海洋中的内孤立波特征提供了理论依据. 关键词： 两层流体 内孤立波 双板造波 临界色散参数     

Second-mode nonlinear internal waves over a sloping bottom

The characteristic features of second-mode internal wave propagation over a sloping bottom are investigated by numerical simulation based on the Korteweg-de Vries equation. A comparison of the transformations that occur for first- and second-mode internal solitons in the course of their propagation over a sloping bottom under the hydrological conditions of the South China Sea is carried out. Convex and concave second-mode waves are considered, and the possibility of their transition from the first to the second state in the course of their propagation from the deep ocean to the shelf is demonstrated. This is an analog of the effect of a change in the internal wave polarity, which earlier was known to occur for only first-mode internal waves.     

On the structure of internal waves excited by buoyant plumes in stratified fluid

Laboratory scale models of sewage disposal from submerged diffusers of the wastewater outfalls was carried out in the Large Thermostratified Tank of IAP RAS. It is shown that intensive interaction of internal waves occurs due to the interaction of turbulent buoyant plumes and a region of temperature bound (thermocline) and a stream propagates under a thermocline. A theoretical model of the field of internal waves is constructed for experimentally obtained velocity and density fields. It is demonstrated that the bimodal regime of internal wave excitation takes place with the first mode localized in the thermocline region and the second one in the stream. The mode excitation coefficients can be described well in the framework of self-induced internalwave generation by buoyant plumes.     

Over-reflection of travelling internal waves in a rotating stratified fluid

Summary It has been known for many years that waves of different kind propagating in a fluid and incident on a mean flow localized shear layer can exhibit, in the linear theory, a reflection coefficient larger than unity. When this phenomenon takes place the wave is said to be over-reflected at the shear layer. In this paper the over-reflection of inertial-gravity waves in a stratified rotating fluid in horizontal sheared motion is studied by making use of the constancy of the net vertical energy flux associated with the wave field. It is found that over-reflection can take place if some physical conditions, explicitly evaluated, are locally satisfied in the fluid. Such conditions are discussed and a comparison is carried out with the same phenomenon in a nonrotating system.

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Riassunto Si sa da molti anni che la teoria lineare di onde di diversa natura, propagantesi in un fluido ed interagenti con uno strato localizzato di shear, prevede, in alcuni casi, un coefficiente di riflessione maggiore dell'unità. Questo fenomeno prende il nome di super riflessione. In questo articolo si studia la super riflessione delle onde gravito-inerziali in un fluido stratificato in moto orizzontale con la velocità dipendente dalla sola coordinata verticale. Lo studio è portato a termine servendosi della condizione di continuità e costanza del flusso netto verticale di energia associata al campo d'onda. Si trova che la super riflessione avviene se sono soddisfatte alcune condizioni fisiche che sono esplicitamente determinate: tali condizioni sono inoltre discusse in dettaglio ed i risultati sono confrontati con quelli, classici, relativi alla propagazione di onde interne nei fluidi stratificati in assenza di rotazione.

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Резюме В течение многих лет известно, что линейная теория волн различной природы, которые распространяются в жидкости и взаимодействуют с локализованным пограничным слоем, предсказывает, что в некоторых случаях коэффициенты отражения могут превьщать единицу. Зто явление носит название супер-отражения (сверх-отражение) на пограничном слое. В этой статье исследуется супер-отражение инерциальной гравитационной волны в стратифицированной вращающейся жидкости в случаэ горизонтального движения со скоростью, зависящей только от вертикальной координаты. При рассмотрении учитывается постоянство результирующей вертикальной энергии, связанной с полем волны. Получено, что сверх-отражение может иметь место, если локально в жидкости выполняются некоторые физические условия. Проводится обсуждение этих условий и полученные результаты сравниваются с классическими результатами по распространению внутренних волн в стратифицированной жидкости в отсутствии вращения.

     

Nonlinear internal waves in a stratified fluid in a closed basin

Summary The problem of two layers of homogeneous inviscid incompressible fluid of density ϱ₁ and ϱ₂ (ϱ₁>ϱ₂) separated by a free surface in a closed basin is studied via a variational principle. A system of ordinary differential equations in the time variable, which approximate the original problem, is derived and discussed.

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Riassunto Si usa un principio variazionale per studiare il problema del moto di due fluidi omogenei incompressibili non viscosi di densità ϱ₁, ϱ₂ (ϱ₁>ϱ₂) separati da una superficie libera in un bacino chiuso. Dopo alcune approssimazioni si deriva e discute un sistema di equazioni differenziali ordinarie.

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Резюме С помоыью вариационного принципа исследуется проблема двух слоев однородной невязкой несжимаемой жидкости с плотностями ϱ₁ и ϱ₂ (ϱ₁>ϱ₂), раазделенных свободной поверхностью в замкнутом резервуаре. Выводится и обсуждается система обыкновенных дифференциальных уравнений по временной переменной, которая аппроксимирует исходную проблему.

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Work done under the auspices of C.N.R.-G.N.A.F.A.

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Partially supported by NSF under grant PHY77-18762.     

On internal nonlinear resonant interaction of capillary-gravitational waves on the flat surface of a viscous liquid

Mechanisms behind internal nonlinear resonant interaction of periodic capillary-gravitational waves on the uniformly charged flat surface of an infinitely deep viscous conducting liquid are considered. A mathematical procedure modifying the well-known method of many scales is proposed for constructing an asymptotically valid solution near the resonance. It is shown that the internal nonlinear resonant interaction results in effective energy transfer from long waves to shorter ones. An increase in the viscosity of the liquid diminishes the rate of energy transfer between resonantly interacting waves.     

Interaction-induced localization of anomalously diffracting nonlinear waves

We study experimentally the interactions between normal solitons and tilted beams in glass waveguide arrays. We find that as a tilted beam, traversing away from a normally propagating soliton, coincides with the self-defocusing regime of the array, it can be refocused and routed back into any of the intermediate sites due to the interaction, as a function of the initial phase difference. Numerically, distinct parameter regimes exhibiting this behavior of the interaction are identified.     

Anderson localization or nonlinear waves: a matter of probability

In linear disordered systems Anderson localization makes any wave packet stay localized for all times. Its fate in nonlinear disordered systems (localization versus propagation) is under intense theoretical debate and experimental study. We resolve this dispute showing that, unlike in the common hypotheses, the answer is probabilistic rather than exclusive. At any small but finite nonlinearity (energy) value there is a finite probability for Anderson localization to break up and propagating nonlinear waves to take over. It increases with nonlinearity (energy) and reaches unity at a certain threshold, determined by the initial wave packet size. Moreover, the spreading probability stays finite also in the limit of infinite packet size at fixed total energy. These results generalize to higher dimensions as well.     

Complex waves in a two-layer circular shielding waveguide

Certain dispersion properties of natural complex waves are considered in a two-layer circular shielded waveguide. The results of a solution of the dispersion equation on an electronic computer are presented for the case of complex waves.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 112–116, January, 1972.     

Optical visualization of internal gravity waves in stratified fluid

The refractive index changes associated with flows in salt water systems allow such flows to be visualized by means of optical methods, e.g. schlieren and interferometry. Experiments that have been conducted by our group with internal gravity waves in stratified brine are reviewed. The experiments encompass visualization and quantitative measurement of internal gravity waves generated by a body oscillating around a fixed position and a test body moving with constant speed vertically through the stratified brine. It is also shown that the velocity field of an internal gravity wave can be measured by means of particle image velocimetry. References to respective wave theories are made.     

线性密度分层流体中半球体运动生成内波的实验研究

在密度线性分布的分层流试验水槽中,对贴近侧壁面的半球体模型运动生成的内波进行了实验研究. 采用多通道电导率阵列,测量分析了拖曳模型产生内波的波形结构、垂向位移场及其相关速度等. 实验结果表明:半球体模型产生的内波可以分为两类,一类是由定常源激发的体积效应内波,另一类是由非定常源激发的尾迹内波,由前者转换为后者的临界内Froude(Fr)数是Fr_s =1.6;与球体模型实验比较,Fr_s约为球体的2/3,转换更迅速,界线更清 关键词： 分层流 半球模型 内波 尾迹     

Two-dimensional evolution equation of finite-amplitude internal gravity waves in a uniformly stratified fluid

We derive a fully nonlinear evolution equation that can describe the two-dimensional motion of finite-amplitude long internal waves in a uniformly stratified three-dimensional fluid of finite depth. The derived equation is the two-dimensional counterpart of the evolution equation obtained by Grimshaw and Yi [J. Fluid Mech. 229, 603 (1991)]. In the small-amplitude limit, our equation is reduced to the celebrated Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation.     

On the stability of nonlinear waves in integrable models

A new method of stability investigation is presented for solutions of nonlinear equations integrable with the help of the inverse scattering transform (IST). The stability problem for periodic nonlinear waves in weakly dispersive media is solved with respect to transverse perturbations. It is shown that for positive dispersion media one-dimensional waves are unstable, and for negative dispersion such waves are stable.