Grimshaw, RHJ;
Helfrich, KR;
Johnson, ER;
(2013)
Experimental study of the effect of rotation on large amplitude internal waves.
Physics of Fluids
, 25
, Article 056602. 10.1063/1.4805092.
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Abstract
Nonlinear internal waves are commonly observed in the coastal ocean. In the weakly nonlinear long wave régime, they are often modeled by the Korteweg-de Vries equation, which predicts that the long-time outcome of generic localised initial conditions is a train of internal solitary waves. However, when the effect of background rotation is taken into account, it is known from several theoretical and numerical studies that the formation of solitary waves is inhibited, and instead nonlinear wave packets form. In this paper, we report the results from a laboratory experiment at the LEGI-Coriolis Laboratory which describes this process.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Experimental study of the effect of rotation on large amplitude internal waves |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.4805092 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4805092 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1392316 |
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