Conventional Partial and Complete Solutions of the Fundamental Equations of Fluid Mechanics in the Problem of Periodic Internal Waves with Accompanying Ligaments Generation

Yuli D. Chashechkin
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Yuli D. Chashechkin: Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics, Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics RAS, 119526 Moscow, Russia

Mathematics, 2021, vol. 9, issue 6, 1-23

Abstract: The problem of generating beams of periodic internal waves in a viscous, exponentially stratified fluid by a band oscillating along an inclined plane is considered by the methods of the theory of singular perturbations in the linear and weakly nonlinear approximations. The complete solution to the linear problem, which satisfies the boundary conditions on the emitting surface, is constructed taking into account the previously proposed classification of flow structural components described by complete solutions of the linearized system of fundamental equations without involving additional force or mass sources. Analyses includes all components satisfying the dispersion relation that are periodic waves and thin accompanying ligaments, the transverse scale of which is determined by the kinematic viscosity and the buoyancy frequency. Ligaments are located both near the emitting surface and in the bulk of the liquid in the form of wave beam envelopes. Calculations show that in a nonlinear description of all components, both waves and ligaments interact directly with each other in all combinations: waves-waves, waves-ligaments, and ligaments-ligaments. Direct interactions of the components that generate new harmonics of internal waves occur despite the differences in their scales. Additionally, the problem of generating internal waves by a rapidly bi-harmonically oscillating vertical band is considered. If the difference in the frequencies of the spectral components of the band movement is less than the buoyancy frequency, the nonlinear interacting ligaments generate periodic waves as well. The estimates made show that the amplitudes of such waves are large enough to be observed under laboratory conditions.

Keywords: stratification; viscosity; internal waves; ligaments; generation; non-linear interaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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