Scale effects in internal wave attractors

2017/11/17 by Christophe Brouzet, C. Brouzet, I. N. Sibgatullin +6 · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Attractor #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Mechanics #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena #Nonlinear system #Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing #Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Scale (ratio) #Statistical physics #physics.flu-dyn

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevfluids.2.114803

published as Physical Review Fluids 2, 114803 (2017)

openalex publication_date 2017/11/17 · arxiv created 2018/05/11 · arxiv updated 2021/02/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Physical effects scale differently with size. As a necessary preliminary step toward geophysically significant extrapolations, an experimental and numerical study of the scale effects in internal wave attractors in linear and nonlinear regimes is made, showing two different scalings for the beam width.

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