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An internal wave in a viscous ocean stratified by both salt and heat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

N. H. Thomas  and
T. N. Stevenson
N. H. Thomas
Affiliation:
Department of the Mechanics of Fluids, University of Manchester
T. N. Stevenson
Affiliation:
Department of the Mechanics of Fluids, University of Manchester
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Abstract

The propagation of an internal wave in an ocean which is stratified in both temperature and salinity is considered. It is shown how the effects of viscosity, heat conduction and solute diffusion attenuate a cross-wave from an oscillatory disturbance. Under certain conditions there is no wave solution even though the oscillatory frequency is less than the Brunt–Väisälä frequency and the fluid is stably stratified.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , 6 November 1973 , pp. 301 - 304
Copyright
© 1973 Cambridge University Press

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