Gravity wave generation in balanced sheared flow revisited

Sheared lherzolite xenoliths revisited

[1] The microstructures of sheared lherzolite xenoliths from South African kimberlites are investigated using new microstructural analysis techniques and new rheological data. By applying electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) methods and the M-index technique for quantifying the strength of lattice preferred orientation (LPO), it is demonstrated that olivine and orthopyroxene, after an initia...

Shear flow generation by drift waves revisited

The generation of shear flow by drift waves is an important area of investigation. In a recent paper @Chen et al., Phys. Plasmas 7, 3129 ~2000!# an elegant formalism was developed for the generation of shear/zonal flows by drift waves in a toroidal plasma. The study of shear flow generation in fluids and plasmas is put into perspective. In this paper it is shown how a simple slab geometry analy...

Gravity Wave Generation by Vortical Flows in a Rotating Frame

Gravity Wave Drag Produced by Small Amplitude Elliptical Mountains for Sheared Wind Profiles

The analytical models of Teixeira et al. (2004) and Teixeira and Miranda (2004), where the gravity wave drag exerted by a sheared stratified flow on axisymmetric or 2D mountains is calculated, are extended here to mountains with an elliptical horizontal cross section. For the simple situations considered in this study, the normalized drag depends on only two parameters: the Richardson number at...

Balanced Source Terms for Wave Generation Within Hasselmann Equation

Equation Vladimir Zakharov, Donald Resio, and Andrei Pushkarev Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, Leninsky 53, Moscow 119991, Russia Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia Waves and Solitons LLC, 1719 W. Marlette Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85015, USA Taylor Engineering Research Institute, University of North Florida ...