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Article Dans Une Revue Physics of Fluids Année : 2010

Viscous spreading of an inertial wave beam in a rotating fluid

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We report experimental measurements of inertial waves generated by an oscillating cylinder in a rotating fluid. The two-dimensional wave takes place in a stationary cross-shaped wavepacket. Velocity and vorticity fields in a vertical plane normal to the wavemaker are measured by a corotating particle image velocimetry system. The viscous spreading of the wave beam and the associated decay of the velocity and vorticity envelopes are characterized. They are found in good agreement with the similarity solution of a linear viscous theory, derived under a quasiparallel assumption similar to the classical analysis of Thomas and Stevenson [“A similarity solution for viscous internal waves,” J. Fluid Mech. 54, 495 (1972)] for internal waves.
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hal-04327367 , version 1 (06-12-2023)

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Pierre-Philippe Cortet, Cyril Lamriben, Frederic Moisy. Viscous spreading of an inertial wave beam in a rotating fluid. Physics of Fluids, 2010, 22 (8), pp.086603. ⟨10.1063/1.3483468⟩. ⟨hal-04327367⟩
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