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标题：Experimental Investigation on the Vertical Structure Characteristics of Internal Solitary Waves
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作者：Peng, Pai ; Du, Hui ; Wei, Gang 等
期刊名称：Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
电子版ISSN：2077-1312
出版年度：2022
卷号：10
期号：8
页码：1-14
DOI：10.3390/jmse10081045
语种：English
出版社：MDPI AG
摘要：An experimental investigation of the vertical structure characteristics of internal solitary waves (ISWs) was systematically carried out in a large gravitationally stratified fluid flume. Four different stratifications were established, and basic elements of ISWs were measured by a conductivity probe array. The vertical distributions of the amplitude, characteristic frequency and waveform of two types of ISWs under different stratifications were obtained, and the experimental results were compared with the theoretical model. The study shows that most vertical structures of the amplitude under different stratifications agree with those of the theoretical model, while there are some deviations for ISWs with large amplitudes. Neither the two-layer model nor the continuously stratified model can effectively describe the variation in the characteristic frequency at different depths with amplitude. For a single small-amplitude ISW, the characteristic frequency first increases and then decreases with increasing depth. The characteristic frequency is largest at the depth of the maximum buoyancy frequency. For an ISW with a relatively large amplitude, there is likely to be a local minimum of the characteristic frequency near the depth where the maximum buoyancy frequency lies. In different stratifications, the sech2 function of KdV theory can describe the waveforms of ISWs at different depths well.
关键词：stratified fluid; internal solitary wave; vertical structure; amplitude; characteristic frequency; waveform