Spontaneous near-inertial wave generation from mesoscale eddy: Nonlinear forcing mechanism

B Zhao, Z Liu, Z Xu, B Yin, Q Zheng - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The spontaneous generation of near-inertial waves (NIWs) from quasi-geostrophic
mesoscale eddies in a stratified fluid is investigated and the process and mechanism …

Dark-soliton asymptotics for a repulsive nonlinear system in a baroclinic flow

XH Wu, YT Gao, X Yu - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In geophysical hydrodynamics, baroclinic instability denotes the process in which the
perturbations draw the energy from the mean flow potential power. Researchers focus their …

Spontaneous near-inertial wave generation from mesoscale eddy: Energy transformation

B Zhao, Y Zhao, Z Liu, W Min, W Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The energy transformation between inertial oscillations (IOs), near-inertial waves (NIWs),
and mesoscale eddies during spontaneous NIW generation is analyzed by the kinetic …

Possible Mechanism for the Generation of Internal Waves by Submesoscale Eddies in the Mozambique Channel

EA Marchuk, IP Chunchuzov, IA Repina… - … and Oceanic Physics, 2022 - Springer
This paper studies a possible mechanism for the formation of spiral structures around a
submesoscale eddy (Rossby number Ro~ 5) detected on September 22, 2017, by a Sentinel …

Energy and enstrophy cascades in the geostrophic vortex with slowly varying inertia–gravity wave spirals

Y Liu, Y Xu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Although geostrophically balanced mesoscale vortices and unbalanced small-scale
turbulence have been well studied, the link between them is not entirely clear, especially in …

The characteristics of spontaneous near-inertial wave generation from an anticyclonic mesoscale eddy

B Zhao, Z Xu, Q Li, W Min, Y Wang, B Yin - Journal of Oceanology and …, 2022 - Springer
The generation and propagation characteristics of near-inertial waves (NIWs) generated
spontaneously from a quasi-geostrophic anticyclonic mesoscale eddy in a rotating and …