The generation of three-dimensional internal waves and attendant boundary layers in a viscous continuously stratified fluid. Construction of an analytical solution

Abstract

An analytical solution of a linearized problem of the emission of periodic internal waves by part of a plane which oscillates with a small amplitude in an arbitrary direction in a viscous exponentially stratified fluid is constructed. Solutions of the dispersion equation are given for all positions of the emitting surface (arbitrary, vertical, horizontal, and critical when one of the beam propagation directions is collinear with the emitting surface). The possibility of transition to the case of a uniform fluid, which is important for applications, is analyzed.

Near-field internal wave beams in two dimensions

“…By contrast, for thin forcing, the evolution of the waves is set by the distance normal to the forcing. This can be seen in the inviscid calculations of Oser (1957), Reynolds (1962), Martin & Llewellyn Smith (2011, 2012 b ) and Davis (2012) for a horizontal disc, Hurley (1969) for an inclined plate and Llewellyn Smith & Young (2003) for a vertical plate, or in the viscous calculations of Kistovich & Chashechkin (1999 a , b ) for a two-dimensional inclined plate, Vasil'ev & Chashechkin (2003, 2006 a , b , 2012) for a three-dimensional inclined plate, Tilgner (2000), Bardakov, Vasil'ev & Chashechkin (2007), Davis & Llewellyn Smith (2010), Le Dizès (2015) and Le Dizès & Le Bars (2017) for a horizontal disc, Maurer etal. (2017) and Boury, Peacock & Odier (2019) for a horizontal wave generator and Beckebanze, Raja & Maas (2019) for a vertical wave generator.…”