Publication Date:
1983-10-01
Description:
We argue that the universality and statistical nature of the deep ocean internal gravity wave spectrum results from a strange attractor in the driven, dissipative internal wave field. To explore this we construct a model which injects energy into the oceanic surface at a constant rate. A two dimensional version of the model is explored analytically and numerically. For the numerical work we restrict our considerations to a few of the longest wavelength modes. This few mode system exhibits bifurcation into limit cycles, period doubling of the limit cycles, and chaotic, non periodic behaviour associated with a strange attractor. In an appendix we present some discussion of the three dimensional version of the model. © 1983, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.
Print ISSN:
0022-1120
Electronic ISSN:
1469-7645
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
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Physics
