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We present briefly some turbulence measurements in the wake of a sphere towed horizontally in a stratified fluid. We point out three fundamental questions raised by this experiment and similar ones : The collapse of the turbulence and of the wake, the generation and emission of internal waves and the interaction between waves and the horizontal vortices that persist for a long time after the collapse.
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Thual, O. (1988). Questions About an Experiment on the Wake of a Sphere in a Stratified Fluid. In: Wesfreid, J.E., Brand, H.R., Manneville, P., Albinet, G., Boccara, N. (eds) Propagation in Systems Far from Equilibrium. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 41. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73861-6_36
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