I’m back at my happy place — the teaching lab at GFI in Bergen! :-)
Here a quick look at what we’ve been doing today: Filling the large wave tank! With clear fresh water and then salty pink water that forms a layer below. As the pink water flows underneath the clear water, there is shear between the two layers, waves form and then they break. Beautiful Kelvin-Helmholtz shear instabilities!
Why have we filled the large tank? Just you wait and see… ;-)
Lee waves in the tank – Mirjam S. Glessmer says:
[…] you guess what we needed the stratification for? Yes — we are moving mountains again! […]
“Dead water” or: ship-generated internal waves – Mirjam S. Glessmer says:
[…] here is another experiment that can be done with the same stratification as the lee waves: Towing a ship to explore the phenomenon of “dead […]