Geostrophic Shock Waves
Geostrophic Shock Waves
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地转冲击波
DOI:
10.1175/1520-0485(1986)016
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1986
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D. Nof
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D. Nof
Abstract Organized depth discontinuities involving a balance between steepening and dissipation are usually referred to as shock waves. An analytical “educed gravity” model is used to examine a special kind of shock wave. The wave under study is a depth discontinuity associated with a transition between a supercritical and subcritical flow in a channel. Even though the wave itself is highly nonlinear, the adjacent upstream and downstream fields are exactly geostrophic in the cross-stream direction. For this reason we term the wave a geostrophic shock wave. We focus on a stationary shock wave whose horizontal projection is a straight line perpendicular to the side walls. Solutions for the entire field are constructed analytically using power series expansions and shock conditions equivalent to the so-called Rankine-Hugoniot constraints. It is found that, for particular upstream conditions, a geostrophic shock wave can be formed if the particle speed exceeds the surface gravity wave speed (i.e., the flow is...