Experimental Investigation on the Dynamic Response of Density-Stratified Fluid in a Submarine Trench

The dynamic response of the generated internal wave as surface water propagating over a submarine trench is investigated in a wave flume. The image processing technique is used to observe the response of density-stratified interface. Two typical distinct phenomena of internal waves were caught in the experiments, which are standing internal waves usually occurred as the incident waves range from 0.6∼0.8 times the length of trench, and the traveling internal waves usually occurred outside this range.