Internal and inertial wave attractors: a review

IN Sibgatullin, EV Ermanyuk - Journal of Applied Mechanics and …, 2019 - Springer
This paper presents a review of theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies of
geometric attractors of internal and/or inertial waves in a stratified and/or rotating fluid. The …

Internal wave turbulence in a stratified fluid with and without eigenmodes of the experimental domain

N Lanchon, DO Mora, E Monsalve, PP Cortet - Physical Review Fluids, 2023 - APS
We present laboratory experiments on turbulence in a linearly stratified fluid driven by an
ensemble of internal gravity waves which approaches statistical homogeneity and …

Internal gravity waves versus inertial waves in the laboratory

S Joubaud, S Boury, P Odier - Comptes …, 2024 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Density-stratified and/or rotating fluids are very common in geophysical and astrophysical
flows and enable the propagation of respectively internal gravity waves and inertial waves …

Internal wave attractors examined using laboratory experiments and 3D numerical simulations

C Brouzet, IN Sibgatullin, H Scolan… - Journal of Fluid …, 2016 - cambridge.org
In the present paper, we combine numerical and experimental approaches to study the
dynamics of stable and unstable internal wave attractors. The problem is considered in a …

Observation of inertia-gravity wave attractors in an axisymmetric enclosed basin

C Pacary, T Dauxois, E Ermanyuk, P Metz, M Moulin… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Internal waves are ubiquitous in the ocean and play an essential role in the transport of
energy and mixing. Their peculiar reflection enables the concentration of energy on a limit …

Vortex cluster arising from an axisymmetric inertial wave attractor

S Boury, I Sibgatullin, E Ermanyuk… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
We present an experimental and numerical study of the nonlinear dynamics of an inertial
wave attractor in an axisymmetric geometrical setting. The rotating ring-shaped fluid domain …

Nonlinear fate of internal wave attractors

H Scolan, E Ermanyuk, T Dauxois - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We present a laboratory study on the instability of internal wave attractors in a trapezoidal
fluid domain filled with uniformly stratified fluid. Energy is injected into the system via …

Internal tide generation by arbitrary two-dimensional topography

P Echeverri, T Peacock - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2010 - cambridge.org
To date, analytical models of internal tide generation by two-dimensional ridges have
considered only idealized shapes. Here, we advance the Green function approach to …

Internal wave attractors: different scenarios of instability

C Brouzet, E Ermanyuk, S Joubaud, G Pillet… - Journal of Fluid …, 2017 - cambridge.org
This paper presents an experimental study of different instability scenarios in a
parallelogram-shaped internal wave attractor in a trapezoidal domain filled with a uniformly …

Three-dimensionality of the triadic resonance instability of a plane inertial wave

DO Mora, E Monsalve, M Brunet, T Dauxois… - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
We analyze theoretically and experimentally the triadic resonance instability (TRI) of a plane
inertial wave in a rotating fluid. Building on the classical triadic interaction equations …