Poster at Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020 - San Diego
In February 2020, I presented my poster entitled “Idealized Numerical Modeling of Internal Wave Propagation Through Density Staircases” at the 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting. The poster explained the project described in my Master’s Report along with some extensions. I show a side-by-side comparison of the experimental results of Ghaemsaidi et al. 2016 and my direct numerical simulation in Dedalus for internal waves propagating through one or two well-mixed layers. I also explain the technique of complex demodulation which allows the separation of upward and downward propagating waves. Using this technique, I will be able to compare the properties of the incident, reflected, and transmitted waves.