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Publications

Rees,T., Lamb, K. G., and F. J. Poulin. 2012. "Asymptotic analysis of the forced internal gravity wave equation". SIAM J. Appl. Math. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2011.11.005.

Lamb, K., and J. Kim. 2011. "Conversion of barotropic tidal energy to internal wave energy over a shelf slope for a linear stratification". Cont. Shelf Res. 33 69-88. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2011.11.005.

Aghsaee, P., Boegman, L., P. J. Diamessis, and K. G. Lamb. 2011. "Boundary-layer-separation-driven vortex shedding beneath internal solitary waves of depression". J. Fluid Mech. 690 321-344. doi:10.1017/jfm2011.432.

Aiki, H., J. P. Matthews, and K. G. Lamb. 2011. "Modeling and energetics of tidally generated wave trains in the Lombok Strait: impact of the Indonesian Throughflow". J. Geophy. Res. 116 . C03023, doi:10.1029/2010JC006589.

Lamb, K. G., and D. Farmer. 2011."Instabilities in an Internal Solitary-like Wave on the Oregon Shelf". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 41 . 67-87. DOI 10.1175/2010JPO4308.1.

Lamb, K. G. 2010. "Energetics of internal solitary waves in a background sheared current". Nonlin. Processes Geophys. 17 553-568. doi:10.5194/npg-17-553-2010.

Aghsaee, P., Boegman, L., and K. G. Lamb. 2010. "Breaking of shoaling internal solitary waves". J. Fluid Mech. 659 289-317. doi:10.1017/S002211201000248X.

Warn-Varnas, A., J. Hawkins, K. G. Lamb, S. Piacsek, S. Chin-Bing, D. King and G. Burgos. 2010. "Solitary wave generation dynamics at Luzon Strait". Ocean Modelling. 31 9-27. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.08.002

Warn-Varnas, A., S. A. Chin-Bing, D. B. King, J. Hawkins and K. Lamb. 2009. "Effects on acoustics caused by ocean solitons, Part A. Oceanography". Nonlinear Analysis. 71 e1807-e1817. doi:10.1016/j.na.2009.02.104.

Chin-Bing, S. A., A. Warn-Varnas, D. B. King, and K. Lamb. 2009. "Effects on acoustics caused by ocean solitons, Part B. Acoustics". Nonlinear Analysis. 71 e2194-e2204. doi:10.1016/j.na.2009.04.069.

Lamb, K. G., and V. T. Nguyen. 2009. "Calculating Energy Flux in Internal Solitary Waves with an Application to Reflectance". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 39 559-580. DOI:10.1175/2008JPO3882.1

Stastna, M., and K. G. Lamb. 2008. "Sediment resuspension mechanisms associated with internal waves in coastal waters." J. Geophys. Res. 113. C10016, doi:10.1029/2007JC004711.

Korobov, A., and K. G. Lamb. 2008 "Interharmonics in internal gravity waves generated by tide-topography interaction." J. Fluid Mech. 611. 61-95. doi:10.1017/S0022112008002449.

Lamb, K. G. 2008. "On the calculation of the available potential energy of an isolated perturbation in a density stratified fluid". J. Fluid Mech. 597 415-427.doi:10.1017/S0022112007009743.

Lamb, K. G. 2007. "Tidally Generated Near-Resonant Internal Wave Triads at a Shelf Break". Geophy. Res. Lett. 34, L18607, doi:10.1029/2007GL030825.

Lamb,K.G., Polukhina, O., Talipova, T., Pelinovsky, E., Xiao, W., and A. Kurkin . 2007. "Breather Generation in Fully Nonlinear Models of a Stratified Fluid". Phys. Rev. E. 75, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.75.046306.

Lamb, K.G. 2007. "Energy and Pseudoenergy Flux in the Internal Wave Field Generated by Tidal Flow over Topography". Cont. Shelf Res. 27, 1208-1232. doi:10.1016/j.csr.2007.01.020.

Warn-Varnas, A., Chin-Bing, S., King, D., Hawkins, J., Lamb, K G., and J. Lynch. 2007. "Winter Primer 4 ocean-acoustic solitary wave studies". IEEE J. Ocean. Eng. 32, 436-452. doi:10.1109/JOE.2006.875273.

Poulin, F.J., Lamb, K.G., and G. Tenti. 2006. "A note on turbulent self-diffusion". Phys. Fluids. 18,doi: 10.1063/1.2364264.

Warn-Varnas, A., Chin-Bing, S., King, D., Hawkins, J., Lamb, K.G., and M. Teixeira. 2005. "Yellow Sea ocean-acoustic solitary wave modelling studies". J. Geophy. Res. doi:10.1029/2004JC002801.

Munroe, J., and K. G. Lamb. 2005. "Topographic Amplitude Dependence of Internal Wave Generation by Tidal Forcing over Idealized Three-Dimensional Topography". J. Geophys. Res.110 doi:10.1029/2004JC002537.

Tabei, A., Akylas, T., and K. G. Lamb. 2004. "Nonlinear effects in reflecting and colliding internal wave beams". J. Fluid Mech., 526, 217-243.

Lamb, K. G., and K. Wilkie. 2004. "Conjugate flows with trapped cores". Phys. Fluids 16, 4685-4695.

Lamb, K. G. 2004. "Boundary layer separation and internal wave generation in Knight Inlet". Proc. Roy. Soc. A., 460, 2305-2337.

Lamb, K.G. 2004. "Nonlinear interaction among internal wave beams generated by tidal flow over supercritical topography". Geophys. Res. Lett, 31, doi:10.1029/2003GL019393.

Lamb, K. G. 2003. "Shoaling solitary internal waves: on a criterion for the formation of waves with trapped cores." J. Fluid Mech., 478, 81-100.

Chin-Bing, S., Warn-Varnas, A., King, D., Lamb, K., Teixeira, M., Hawkins, J. 2003. "Analysis of coupled oceanographic and acoustic soliton simulations in the Yellow Sea: a search for soliton induced resonance". Math. Comp. Sim., 62, 11--20.

Lamb, K. G. 2002. "A numerical investigation of solitary internal waves with trapped cores formed via shoaling". J. Fluid Mech., 451, 109-144.

Stastna, M., and K. G. Lamb 2002. "Vortex shedding and sediment resuspension associated with the interaction of an internal solitary wave and the bottom boundary layer". Geophys. Res. Letters., 29, doi:10.1029/2001GL014070

Stastna, M., and K. G. Lamb 2002. "Large fully nonlinear internal solitary waves: the effect of background current". Phys. Fluids, 14, 2897-2999.

Pelinovsky, E., O. Polukhina, and K. Lamb 2000. "Nonlinear internal waves in the ocean, stratified on density and current". Oceanology, 40, 805-815.

Lamb, K. G. 2000. "Conjugate flows for a three-layer fluid". Phys. Fluids, 12, 2169-2185.

Talipova, T., E. Pelinovsky, K. G. Lamb, R. Grimshaw and P. Holloway, 1999. "Cubic nonlinearity effects on internal wave propagation". Trans. Russ. Acad. Sc. 364, 824-827.

Lamb, K.G., and B.Wan, 1998. "Conjugate flows and flat solitary waves for a continuously stratified fluid". Phys. Fluids, 10, 2061-2079.

Lamb, K. G. 1997. "Are Solitary Internal Waves Solitons?". Stud. Appl. Math., 101, 289-308.

Lamb, K. G. 1997. "Particle transport by nonbreaking, solitary internal waves". J. Geophys. Res. Oceans., 102, 18,641-18660.

Lamb, K. G., and L. Yan. 1996. "The evolution of internal wave undular bores: comparisons of a fully nonlinear numerical model with weakly-nonlinear theory". J. Phys. Oceanogr., 26, 2712-2734.

Lamb, K. G. 1994. "Numerical experiments of internal wave generation by strong tidal flow across a finite-amplitude bank edge". J.Geophys. Res. Oceans. 99, 843-864.

Lamb, K. G. 1994. "Numerical simulations of stratified inviscid flow over a smooth obstacle". J.Fluid Mech. 260, 1-22.

K. G. Lamb and J. A. Shore. 1992. "On the influence of horizontal inhomogeneities on the propagation of high frequency linear internal gravity waves in a baroclinic flow". J. Phys. Oceanogr. 22, 965-975.

K. G. Lamb and R. T. Pierrehumbert. 1992. "Steady state, nonlinear internal gravity wave critical layers satisfying an upper radiation condition". J. Fluid Mech. 238, 371-404.

R. J. Greatbatch and K. G. Lamb. 1990. "On Parameterizing Vertical Mixing of Momentum in Non-Eddy Resolving Models". J. Phys. Oceanogr.20, 1634-1637.

K. G. Lamb, G. Tenti and W. H. Hui. 1987. "General theory of the wavemaker I. theoretical results. J. Appl. Math. Phys. (ZAMP), 38, 391-408.

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