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TMF, 2022 Volume 211, Number 2, Pages 200–215 (Mi tmf10224)

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Analytic properties of the Green's function for the equation of internal gravitational waves in a stratified medium with shear flows

V. V. Bulatov

Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: We discuss the problem of constructing the Green's function for the equation for linear internal gravity waves in a finite layer of a stratified medium with background shear flows. We study analytic properties of the Green's function presented as a sum of wave modes (discrete spectrum) and an integral along the cut (continuous spectrum). It is shown that at large times, the contribution from the continuous spectrum of the vertical spectral problem is exponentially small. The convergence of the expansion of the Green's function in wave modes is proved. The asymptotics of the Green's function at large times is shown to be completely determined by the asymptotics of its component wave modes.

Keywords: stratified medium, Green's function, internal gravity waves, buoyancy frequency, shear flow, spectral problem, dispersion dependence.

Received: 20.12.2021
Revised: 20.12.2021

DOI: 10.4213/tmf10224


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2022, 211:2, 611–624

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