- Letter
Robust propagation of internal coastal Kelvin waves in complex domains
Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, L022801 – Published 25 February, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.L022801
Abstract
We experimentally investigate internal coastal Kelvin waves in a two-layer fluid system on a rotating table. Waves in our system propagate in the prograde direction and are exponentially localized near the boundary. Our experiments verify the theoretical dispersion relation of the wave and show that the wave amplitude decays exponentially along the propagation direction. We further demonstrate that the waves can robustly propagate along boundaries of complex geometries without being scattered and that adding obstacles to the wave propagation path does not cause additional attenuation.
