A simple model of turbulent mixing induced by a breaking internal gravity wave implies that one quarter of the kinetic energy lost goes into potential energy. The model is based on a critical Richardson number concept. The conceptual model and some numeric trials simulate the experiment of Thorpe (1973) quite well.
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Rory O. R. Y. Thompson (1980) studied this question.
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