Doppler-Spreading Models of Short Oceanic Internal Waves

University Of California-San Diego, La Jolla CA

Investigators

Abstract

A numerical modeling study of short internal waves and their approach to dissipation (through breaking) and mixing in the presence of longer waves is proposed. Important processes, which will be studied, include: refraction by steady shear, refraction by the vertical divergence of the background flows, interactions amongst short waves, phase-group interactions, ray convergence/divergence, and short-wave induced mean flows. The PIs will develop a variety of different numerical codes to attack these problems. The level of intensity with which they approach each problem will be adaptive and depend upon ongoing developments within their research program.