The energetics of the interaction of internal gravity waves with a shelf break is investigated by means of high-resolution two-dimensional numerical simulations, with an emphasis on understanding the partitioning of the internal wave energy over the course of the interaction process and the subsequent dynamics of the onshore propagating internal waves. Some of the energy is dissipated as a resu...

Alfvén wave propagation, reflection, and heating of the chromosphere are studied for a one-dimensional solar atmosphere by self-consistently solving plasma, neutral fluid, and Maxwell’s equations with incorporation of the Hall effect and strong electron–neutral, electron–ion, and ion–neutral collisions. We have developed a numerical model based on an implicit backward difference formula of seco...

[1] Argo float data (subsurface tracks and temperature profiles collected from March 2004 through May 2005) are used to detect signatures of long Rossby waves in the velocity of the currents at 1000-m depth and temperature, between the ocean surface and 950 m, in the zonal band of 4 N–24 N in the tropical North Atlantic. Different types of long Rossby waves (with the characteristic scales betwe...

Refocusing for time reversed waves propagating in disordered media has recently been observed experimentally and studied mathematically. This surprising effect has a great potential of applications in domains such as medical imaging, underwater acoustics, wireless communications among others. Time refocusing for one-dimensional acoustic waves is now mathematically well understood. In this paper...

Actin polymerization is typically initiated at specific sites in a cell by membrane-bound protein complexes, and the resulting structures are involved in specialized cellular functions, such as migration, particle uptake, or mitotic division. Here we analyze the potential of the actin system to self-organize into waves that propagate on the planar, substrate-attached membrane of a cell. We show...

The reflection and transmission of thermoelastic plane waves at an imperfect boundary of two dissimilar fibre-reinforced transversely isotropic thermoelastic solid half-spaces under hydrostatic initial stress has been investigated. The appropriate boundary conditions are applied at the interface to obtain the reflection and transmission coefficients of various reflected and transmitted waves wi...

The formation of internal waves from evanescent regions is studied experimentally with a Gaussian topography and varying natural frequency (N) profiles. When a topography is encompassed by an evanescent region, where N is less than the imposed excitation frequency, only evanescent waves are generated. The amplitude of these evanescent waves decay at an exponential rate while traveling verticall...

The polarization of light can be rotated in materials with an absence of molecular or structural mirror symmetry. While this rotating ability is normally rather weak in naturally occurring chiral materials, artificial chiral metamaterials have demonstrated extraordinary rotational ability by engineering intra-molecular couplings. However, while in general, chiral metamaterials can exhibit stron...