Mechanical diffusion in grease ice stirred by gravity waves

Effective viscosity of grease ice in linearized gravity waves

Grease ice is an agglomeration of disc-shaped ice crystals, named frazil ice, which forms in turbulent waters of the Polar Oceans and in rivers as well. It has been recognized that the properties of grease ice to damp surface gravity waves could be explained in terms of the effective viscosity of the ice slurry. This paper is devoted to the study of the dynamics of a suspension of disc-shaped p...

Waves in sea ice

Bending of Light by Gravity Waves

We describe the statistical properties of light rays propagating though a random sea of gravity waves and compare with the case for scalar metric perturbations from density inhomogeneities. For scalar fluctuations the deflection angle grows as the square-root of the path length D in the manner of a random walk, and the rms displacement of a ray from the unperturbed trajectory grows as D. For gr...

Acoustic-gravity Waves Produced by Energy Release

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Gravity waves in the Sun

We present numerical simulations of penetrative convection and gravity wave excitation in the Sun. Gravity waves are self-consistently generated by a convective zone overlying a radiative interior. We produce power spectra for gravity waves in the radiative region as well as estimates for the energy flux of gravity waves below the convection zone. We calculate a peak energy flux in waves below ...