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internal waves参数亚谐不稳定性的实验研究

Experimental study of parametric subharmonic instability for internal waves

Baptiste Bourget, Thierry Dauxois, Sylvain Joubaud, Philippe Odier

摘要:

内波被认为是最重要的,因为它们影响海洋混合和能量传输。内波的破碎有几个过程,它们通常涉及波与波之间的非线性相互作用。在这项工作中,我们实验研究的参数亚谐不稳定性(PSI),它提供了一个有效的机制,从大到小的尺度转移能量。它对应于主平面波的不稳定和两个较低频率和不同波矢量的次级波的自发发射。使用时频分析,我们观察到的二次波的时间演化,从而测量的不稳定性的增长率。此外,希尔伯特变换方法允许测量不同的波矢量。我们将这些测量结果与理论预测进行比较,并研究了不稳定性与主波频率和振幅的依赖关系,揭示了由于光束的有限尺寸而导致的限制对不稳定模式的选择的可能影响。

英文摘要:

Internal waves are believed to be of primary importance as they affect ocean mixing and energy transport. Several processes can lead to the breaking of internal waves and they usually involve non linear interactions between waves. In this work, we study experimentally the parametric subharmonic instability (PSI), which provides an efficient mechanism to transfer energy from large to smaller scales. It corresponds to the destabilization of a primary plane wave and the spontaneous emission of two secondary waves, of lower frequencies and different wave vectors. Using a time-frequency analysis, we observe the time evolution of the secondary waves, thus measuring the growth rate of the instability. In addition, a Hilbert transform method allows the measurement of the different wave vectors. We compare these measurements with theoretical predictions, and study the dependence of the instability with primary wave frequency and amplitude, revealing a possible effect of the confinement due to the finite size of the beam, on the selection of the unstable mode.

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