Boundary layer flow beneath an internal solitary wave of elevation

Magda Carr; P A Davies

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Boundary layer flow beneath an internal solitary wave of elevation

Magda Carr, P A Davies

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Abstract

The wave-induced flow over a fixed bottom boundary beneath an internal solitary wave of elevation propagating in an unsheared, two-layer, stably stratified fluid is investigated experimentally. Measurements of the velocity field close to the bottom boundary are presented to illustrate that in the lower layer the fluid velocity near the bottom reverses direction as the wave decelerates while higher in the water column the fluid velocity is in the same direction as the wave propagation. The observation is similar in nature to that for wave-induced flow beneath a surface solitary wave. Contrary to theoretical predictions for internal solitary waves, no evidence for either boundary layer separation or vortex formation is found beneath the front half of the wave in the adverse pressure gradient region of the flow.

Original language	English
Article number	026601
Journal	Physics of Fluids
Volume	22
Issue number	2
Early online date	25 Feb 2010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3327289
Publication status	Published - Feb 2010

Keywords

Rotating flows
Flow instabilities
Internal waves
Ocean waves
Reynolds stress modeling

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