 Internal gravity wave

ID: internal-gravity-wave

Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24

In a uniformly stratified fluid with buoyancy frequency

N

, a plane wave of horizontal and vertical wavenumbers

k, m

obeys

ω^{2} = \frac{N ^{2} k ^{2}}{k ^{2} + m ^{2}} .

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