Lagrangian coherent structures and internal wave attractors
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Lagrangian coherent structures and internal wave attractors.
For a nonuniformly stratified layer of fluid, internal gravity waves propagate at varying angles depending on the local buoyancy and Coriolis (in geophysical applications) frequencies. Relatively confined geometries, such as multiple submarine ridges, can support internal wave attractors, which can be viewed as Lagrangian coherent structures for the energy density flux. Since traditional approa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1054-1500,1089-7682
DOI: 10.1063/1.3273054