NOTES ON SOME REYNOLDS STRESS EFFECTS OF INTERNAL WAVES ON SLOPES

When two-dimensional internal waves encounter a shoaling region, the second order mass and momentum flux carried by the waves must be re-adjusted if no mixing occurs. The re-adjustment occurs by a 'set-up' and 'set-down' of the mean isopycnals generating a second order mean Eulerian flow to cancel the Stokes drift velocity. Since the effects of Coriolis forces in an infinite flat bottomed channel are analogous to buoyancy forces on a sloping bottom, rotation is easily taken into account, however the problem is degenerate to an arbitrary long-shore geostrophic flow.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Also published in Deep Sea Research, v18, p583-595, 1971.
• Corporate Authors:

  Naval Postgraduate School

  Department of Earth and Planetary Science
  Monterey, CA  United States  93940
• Authors:
  • Wunsch, C I
• Publication Date: 1971-2-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 86 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Reynolds stress; Stresses; Thermal diffusion; Waves
• Uncontrolled Terms: Wave run up
• Old TRIS Terms: Reynolds stresses; Wave induced stresses
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00028958
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Contract Numbers: Nonr-1841 (74), Nonr-3963 (31)
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 10 1972 12:00AM