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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
Volume 18, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.2214538
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Science (CFCAS)
- Alberta Ingenuity Studentship program
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Through laboratory experiments we examine internal wave generation above and in the lee of finite-amplitude periodic topography having various degrees of roughness. We show that internal waves are generated not only by flow over the hills but also by flow over boundary-trapped lee waves and by vigorous turbulence created in the lee of sharp-crested hills. For low values of the excitation frequency, linear theory well predicts the internal wave frequencies but significantly overestimates the wave amplitudes because it neglects processes associated with boundary layer separation. When the excitation frequency exceeds the buoyancy frequency, turbulence results in the excitation of internal waves with frequencies approximately 0.72 +/- 0.05 of the buoyancy frequency and vertical displacement amplitudes ranging between 1.5% and 2% of the horizontal wavelength. (C) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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