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University of Dundee

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Article title

Convectively induced shear instability in large amplitude internal solitary waves

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1063/1.3030947

Title of journal

Physics of Fluids

Article number

126601

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

ISSN of journal

1070-6631

Year of publication

2008

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

The paper resulted from an EPSRC grant (GR/S27368/01) under its Physics-Engineering Programme. It reports the results of a successful collaborative modelling study with the University of Oslo that demonstrated, for the first time, (i) the role of convective instability in determining the conditions for wave breaking of fully-nonlinear internal solitary waves (ISWs) in 2 layer, stably-stratified fluids, (ii) the combined and separate contributions of convective and shear instability mechanisms in the development of the wave breaking process and (iii) experimental verification of the predictions of a fully nonlinear mathematical analysis of ISWs propagating in 2-layer fluid systems.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

A - Environment

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract