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Group resonant interactions between surface and internal gravity waves in a two-layer system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2020

Tore Magnus A. Taklo  and
Wooyoung Choi Open the ORCID record for Wooyoung Choi [Opens in a new window]
Tore Magnus A. Taklo
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark,NJ 07102-1982, USA
Wooyoung Choi*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark,NJ 07102-1982, USA
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†Email address for correspondence: wychoi@njit.edu
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Abstract

Nonlinear interactions between surface and internal gravity waves in a two-layer system are studied using explicit second-order nonlinear evolution equations in Hamiltonian form. Motivated by the detailed experiment of Lewis, Lake & Ko (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 63, 1974, pp. 773–800), our focus is on surface wave modulation by the group resonance mechanism that corresponds to near-resonant triad interactions between a long internal wave and short surface waves. Our numerical solutions show good agreement with laboratory measurements of the local wave amplitude and slope, and confirm that the surface modulation becomes significant when the group velocity of the surface waves matches the phase speed of the internal wave, as the linear modulation theory predicts. It is shown, however, that, after the envelope amplitude is increased sufficiently, the surface and internal waves start to exchange energy through near-resonant triad interactions, which is found to be crucial to accurately describe the long-term surface wave modulation by an internal wave. The reduced amplitude equations are also adopted to validate this observation. For oceanic applications, numerical solutions are presented for a density ratio close to one and it is found that significant energy exchanges occur through primary and successive resonant triad interactions.

JFM classification

Geophysical and Geological Flows: Internal waves Geophysical and Geological Flows: Stratified flows Waves/Free-surface Flows: Surface gravity waves
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 892 , 10 June 2020 , A14
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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