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Internal wave generation in uniformly stratified fluids. Part 2. Moving point sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Bruno Voisin
Bruno Voisin
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Laboratoire des Ecoulements Géophysiques et Industriels, Institut de Mécanique de Grenoble, CNRS – UJF – INPG, BP 53 X, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France
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Abstract

The Green's function method is applied to the generation of internal gravity waves by a moving point mass source. Arbitrary motion of a source of arbitrary time dependence is treated using the impulsive Green's function, while ‘classical’ approaches of uniform motion of a steady or oscillatory source are recovered using the monochromatic Green's function. Waves have locally the structure of impulsive waves, emitted at the retarded time tr, and having propagated with the group velocity; at each position and time an implicit equation defines tr, in terms of which the waves are written. A source both oscillating and moving generates two systems of waves, with respectively positive and negative frequencies, and when oscillations vanish these systems merge into one.

Three particular cases are considered: the uniform horizontal and vertical motions of a steady source, and the uniform horizontal motion of an oscillatory source. Waves spread downstream of the steady source. For the oscillatory source they can extend both upstream and downstream, depending on the ratio of the source frequency to the buoyancy frequency, and are contained inside conical wavefronts, parts of which are caustics. For horizontal motion, moreover, the steady analysis (based on the monochromatic Green's function) reveals the presence of two insignificant contributions overlooked by the unsteady analysis (based on the impulsive Green's function), but which for an extended source may become of the same order as the main contribution. Among those is an upstream columnar disturbance associated with blocking.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 261 , 25 February 1994 , pp. 333 - 374
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© 1994 Cambridge University Press

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