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Excitation and resonant enhancement of axisymmetric internal wave modes

S. Boury, T. Peacock, and P. Odier
Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 034802 – Published 5 March 2019

Abstract

To date, axisymmetric internal wave fields, which have relevance to atmospheric internal wave fields generated by storm cells and oceanic near-inertial wave fields produced by surface perturbations, have been experimentally realized using an oscillating sphere or torus as the source. Here we use a wave generator configuration capable of exciting axisymmetric internal wave fields of arbitrary radial form to generate axisymmetric internal wave modes. After establishing the theoretical background for axisymmetric mode propagation, taking into account lateral and vertical confinement, and also accounting for the effects of weak viscosity, we study modes of different order. We characterize the efficiency of the wave generator through careful measurement of the wave amplitude based upon group velocity arguments, and then consider the effect of vertical confinement to induce resonance, identifying a series of experimental resonant peaks that agree well with theoretical predictions. In the vicinity of resonance, the wave fields undergo a transition to nonlinear behavior that is initiated on the central axis of the domain and proceeds to erode the wave field throughout the domain.

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  • Received 23 October 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.034802

©2019 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Fluid Dynamics

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S. Boury1, T. Peacock2, and P. Odier1

  • 1Univ Lyon, ENS de Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique, F-69342 Lyon, France
  • 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

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Vol. 4, Iss. 3 — March 2019

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