Internal Wave Interferometry
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Mathur, Manikandan S.
Peacock, Thomas
Date Issued
March 2010
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Mathur, Manikandan, and Thomas Peacock. “Internal Wave Interferometry.” Physical Review Letters 104.11 (2010): 118501. © 2010 The American Physical Society
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Abstract
Internal waves are a ubiquitous and significant means of momentum and energy transport in the oceans, atmosphere, and astrophysical bodies. Here, we show that internal wave propagation in nonuniform density stratifications, which are prevalent throughout nature, has a direct mathematical analogy with the classical optical problem of a Fabry-Perot multiple-beam light interferometer. We rigorously establish this correspondence, and furthermore provide the first experimental demonstration of an internal wave interferometer, based on the theory of resonant transmission of internal waves.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.118501
