Abstract
Three examples of wave–vortex interaction are studied, in analytically tractable weak refraction regimes with attention to the mean recoil forces, local and remote, that are associated with refractive changes in wave pseudomomentum fluxes. Wave-induced mean forces of this kind can be persistent, with cumulative effects, even in the absence of wave dissipation. In each example, a single wavetrain propagates past a single vortex. In the first two examples, in a two-dimensional, non-rotating acoustic or shallow-water setting, the focus is on whether or not the wavetrain overlaps the vortex core. In the overlapping case, the recoil has a local contribution given by the Craik–Leibovich force on the vortex core, the vector product of Stokes drift and mean vorticity. (For a quantum vortex this contribution is called the Iordanskii force arising from the Aharonov–Bohm effect on a phonon current.) However, in all except one special limiting case there are additional “remote” contributions, mediated by Stokes-drift-induced return flows that can intersect the vortex core well away from locations where the waves are refracted. The third example is a non-overlapping, remote-recoil-only example in a rapidly rotating frame, in which the waves are deep-water gravity waves and the mean flow obeys shallow-water quasigeostrophic dynamics. Contrary to what might at first be thought, the Ursell “anti-Stokes flow” induced by the rotation – an Eulerian-mean flow tending to cancel the Stokes drift – fails to suppress remote recoil. There are nontrivial open questions about extending these results to regimes of stronger refraction, especially regarding the scope of the “pseudomomentum rule” for the wave-induced recoil forces.
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