Victor Shrira

Title: Professor
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I began with MSc in Physics (1975, N.-Novgorod University, Russia). Then after two year spell in industry I did PhD devoted to nonlinear internal waves in the ocean in the P.P.Shirshov Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Since 1980 I worked there as a scientist, leading scientist, Head of Group. In 1997 I moved to University College Cork (Cork, Ireland) to become “The Benson Ford Professor of Applied Mathematics’’  In  2000 I joined Keele as Professor of Applied Mathematics.

My main area of research is concerned with nonlinear waves of different nature, most often, in the context of physical oceanography.

Over last ten years nonlinear water waves were the subject of my prime interest. Specifically, I am interested in formation of 3-d patterns, wave instabilities, Hamiltonian and "almost" Hamiltonian systems, wave interactions with shear currents and turbulence, fundamental problems of statistical description of random wave field, formation of wave groups and Langmuir circulations, EM scattering by wind wave patterns.

My main interest in physical oceanography (the central theme) is in understanding the basic mechanisms of manifestations of interior processes on the ocean surface, but also includes internal waves, coastal processes, Rossby waves, wave-current interactions, nonlinear flows over topography. I am also interested in remote sensing of physical processes in the upper ocean, remote sensing of shear currents near the surface, developing new methods of measurements of turbulence below the air-water interface and cross interface fluxes.

In the area of basic fluid mechanics I am currently working on issues of boundary layers dynamics and laminar-turbulent transition in the flows where there is no linearly unstable modes.

Selected Publications

  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 2011. Evolution of wave turbulence under "gusty" forcing. Phys Rev Lett, vol. 107(11), 114502. link> doi>
  • Shrira VI and Townsend WA. 2010. Inertia-gravity waves beyond the inertial latitude. Part 1. Inviscid singular focusing. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 664, 478-509. link> doi>
  • Shrira VI and Geogjaev VV. 2010. What makes the Peregrine soliton so special as a prototype of freak waves?. JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS, vol. 67(1-2), 11-22. link> doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 2009. Evolution of kurtosis for wind waves. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, vol. 36, Article ARTN L13603. link> doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 2009. "Fast" nonlinear evolution in wave turbulence. Phys Rev Lett, vol. 102(2), 024502. link> doi>

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Journal Articles

  • Shrira VI and Townsend WA. 2013. Near-inertial waves and deep ocean mixing. PHYSICA SCRIPTA, vol. T155, Article UNSP 014036. link> doi>
  • Yakubovich EI and Shrira VI. 2012. Non-steady columnar motions in rotating stratified Boussinesq fluids: exact Lagrangian and Eulerian description. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 691, 417-439. link> doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 2011. Evolution of wave turbulence under "gusty" forcing. Phys Rev Lett, vol. 107(11), 114502. link> doi>
  • Shrira VI and Townsend WA. 2010. Inertia-gravity waves beyond the inertial latitude. Part 1. Inviscid singular focusing. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 664, 478-509. link> doi>
  • Shrira VI and Geogjaev VV. 2010. What makes the Peregrine soliton so special as a prototype of freak waves?. JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS, vol. 67(1-2), 11-22. link> doi>
  • Choudhury KR, O'Sullivan F, Samanta M, Caulliez G, Shrira V. 2010. Regularized Reconstruction of Wave Height and Slope Fields From Refracted Images of Water. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION, vol. 105(489), 36-47. link> doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 2009. Evolution of kurtosis for wind waves. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, vol. 36, Article ARTN L13603. link> doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 2009. "Fast" nonlinear evolution in wave turbulence. Phys Rev Lett, vol. 102(2), 024502. link> doi>
  • Kudryavtsev V, Shrira V, Dulov V, Malinovsky V. 2008. On the vertical structure of wind-driven sea currents. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, vol. 38(10), 2121-2144. link> doi>
  • Voronovich VV, Shrira VI, Thomas G. 2008. Can bottom friction suppress 'freak wave' formation?. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 604, 263-296. link> doi>
  • O'Sullivan F, Huang J, Choudhury KR, Caulliez G, Shrira V. 2008. Regularized reconstruction of water surfaces from noisy gradient information via plane-wave superposition. INVERSE PROBLEMS, vol. 24(3), Article ARTN 034016. link> doi>
  • SHRIRA VI, Sazonov IA, Voronovich VV. 2006. On radiating solitons in a model of the internal wave–shear flow resonance. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 568, 273-301. doi>
  • Ivonin DV, Shrira VI, Broche P. 2006. On the singular nature of the second-order peaks in HF radar sea echo. IEEE JOURNAL OF OCEANIC ENGINEERING, vol. 31(4), 751-767. link> doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 2006. Role of non-resonant interactions in the evolution of nonlinear random water wave fields. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 561, 181-207. link> doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 2006. Direct numerical simulation of downshift and inverse cascade for water wave turbulence. Phys Rev Lett, vol. 96(20), 204501. link> doi>
  • Gerkema T and Shrira VI. 2006. Non-traditional reflection of internal waves from a sloping bottom, and the likelihood of critical reflection. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, vol. 33(6), Article ARTN L06611. link> doi>
  • SHRIRA VI and Gerkema T. 2005. Near-inertial waves in the ocean: beyond the traditional approximation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 529, 195-219. doi>
  • Gerkema T and Shrira VI. 2005. Near-inertial waves on the "nontraditional'' beta plane. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS, vol. 110(C1), Article ARTN C01003. link> doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 2004. Direct numerical simulation of the statistical characteristics of wave ensembles. DOKLADY PHYSICS, vol. 49(6), 389-392. link> doi>
  • Ivonin DV, Broche P, Devenon JL, Shrira VI. 2004. Validation of HF radar probing of the vertical shear of surface currents by acoustic Doppler current profiler measurements. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS, vol. 109(C4), Article ARTN C04003. link> doi>
  • SHRIRA VI and Sazonov I. 2003. Quasi-modes in boundary-layer-type shear flows. Part 2. Large-time asymptotics of broadband inviscid small amplitude 2D perturbations. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 488, 245-282. doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 2001. Numerical modelling of water-wave evolution based on the Zakharov equation. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 449, 341-371. link> doi>
  • SHRIRA VI and Sazonov I. 2001. Quasi-modes in boundary-layer-type shear flows. Part 1. Inviscid two-dimensional spatially harmonic perturbations. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 446, 133-171. doi>
  • Shrira VI, Ivonin DV, Broche P, de Maistre JC. 2001. On remote sensing of vertical shear of ocean surface currents by means of a single-frequency VHF radar. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, vol. 28(20), 3955-3958. link> doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 2001. On the predictability of evolution of surface gravity and gravity-capillary waves. PHYSICA D, vol. 152, 665-675. link> doi>
  • Shrira VI, Voronovich VV, Sazonov IA. 2000. Wave breaking due to internal wave-shear flow resonance over a sloping bottom. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 425, 187-211. link> doi>
  • Badulin SI and Shrira VI. 1999. Global dynamics in the simplest models of three-dimensional water-wave patterns. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MECHANICS B-FLUIDS, vol. 18(3), 433-446. link> doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 1999. Physical mechanisms for sporadic wind wave horse-shoe patterns. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MECHANICS B-FLUIDS, vol. 18(3), 463-474. link> doi>
  • Annenkov SY and Shrira VI. 1999. Sporadic wind wave horse-shoe patterns. NONLINEAR PROCESSES IN GEOPHYSICS, vol. 6(1), 27-50. link>
  • Grimshaw RHJ, Ostrovsky LA, Shrira VI, Stepanyants YA. 1998. Long nonlinear surface and internal gravity waves in a rotating ocean. SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS, vol. 19(4), 289-338. link> doi>
  • Voronovich VV, Pelinovsky DE, Shrira VI. 1998. On internal wave-shear flow resonance in shallow water. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 354, 209-237. link> doi>
  • Voronovich VV, Shrira VI, Stepanyants YA. 1998. Two-dimensional models for nonlinear vorticity waves in shear flows. STUDIES IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS, vol. 100(1), 1-32. link> doi>
  • Shrira VI, Voronovich VV, Kozhelupova NG. 1997. Explosive instability of vorticity waves. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, vol. 27(4), 542-554. link> doi>
  • Shrira VI and Voronovich VV. 1996. Nonlinear dynamics of vorticity waves in the coastal zone. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 326, 181-203. link> doi>
  • Shrira VI, Badulin SI, Kharif C. 1996. A model of water wave 'horse-shoe' patterns. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 318, 375-405. link> doi>
  • Voronovich VV and Shrira VI. 1996. On the amplification of internal-wave surface manifestations due to subsurface shear current. OKEANOLOGIYA, vol. 36(2), 173-178. link>
  • Shrira VI and Annenkov SY. 1996. Manifestations of bottom topography on the ocean surface: The physical mechanism for large scales. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 308, 313-340. link> doi>
  • BADULIN S, SHRIRA V, KHARIF C, IOUALALEN M. 1995. ON 2 APPROACHES TO THE PROBLEM OF INSTABILITY OF SHORT-CRESTED WATER-WAVES. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 303, 297-326. link> doi>
  • PELINOVSKY D and SHRIRA V. 1995. COLLAPSE TRANSFORMATION FOR SELF-FOCUSING SOLITARY WAVES IN BOUNDARY-LAYER TYPE SHEAR FLOWS. PHYSICS LETTERS A, vol. 206(3-4), 195-202. link> doi>
  • GNEVYSHEV V and SHRIRA V. 1994. ON THE STABILITY OF GEOPHYSICAL FLOWS WITH THE ACCOUNT FOR THE RAYLEIGH FRICTION. IZVESTIYA AKADEMII NAUK FIZIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA, vol. 30(6), 819-824. link>
  • ANNENKOV S and SHRIRA V. 1993. ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF FLOW PROFILES IN THE OCEAN FROM TOPOGRAPHICALLY CAUSED SURFACE ANOMALIES. DOKLADY AKADEMII NAUK, vol. 333(6), 771-774. link>
  • ANNENKOV S and SHRIRA V. 1993. ON THE MECHANISM OF BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY MANIFESTATIONS ON THE OCEAN SURFACE. DOKLADY AKADEMII NAUK, vol. 331(4), 490-493. link>
  • SHRIRA V. 1993. SURFACE-WAVES ON SHEAR CURRENTS - SOLUTION OF THE BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEM. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 252, 565-584. link> doi>
  • BADULIN S and SHRIRA V. 1993. ON THE IRREVERSIBILITY OF INTERNAL-WAVE DYNAMICS DUE TO WAVE-TRAPPING BY MEAN FLOW INHOMOGENEITIES .1. LOCAL ANALYSIS. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 251, 21-53. link> doi>
  • BENILOV E, GNEVYSHEV V, SHRIRA V. 1992. NONLINEAR-INTERACTION OF A ZONAL JET AND BAROTROPIC ROSSBY-WAVE TURBULENCE - THE PROBLEM OF TURBULENT FRICTION. DYNAMICS OF ATMOSPHERES AND OCEANS, vol. 16(5), 339-353. link> doi>
  • ABRAMYAN L, STEPANYANTS Y, SHRIRA V. 1992. NON-ONE-DIMENSIONAL SOLITARY WAVES IN SHEAR FLOWS OF BOUNDARY-LAYER TYPE. DOKLADY AKADEMII NAUK, vol. 327(4-6), 460-466. link>
  • ANNENKOV S and SHRIRA V. 1992. ON ZONAL WAVE-GUIDES FOR ROSSBY WAVES IN THE WORLD OCEAN. OKEANOLOGIYA, vol. 32(1), 5-12. link>
  • MALOMED B and SHRIRA V. 1991. SOLITON CAUSTICS. PHYSICA D, vol. 53(1), 1-12. link> doi>
  • Shrira VI and Marchenko AV. 1991. Theory of two-dimensional nonlinear waves in liquid covered by ice. Fluid Dynamics, vol. 26(4), 580-587. doi>
  • GNEVYSHEV V and SHRIRA V. 1990. ON THE EVALUATION OF BAROTROPIC BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY PARAMETERS OF ZONAL FLOWS ON A BETA-PLANE. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 221, 161-181. link> doi>
  • ZAKHAROV V and SHRIRA V. 1990. ON THE FORMATION OF THE DIRECTIONAL SPECTRUM OF WIND-WAVES. ZHURNAL EKSPERIMENTALNOI I TEORETICHESKOI FIZIKI, vol. 98(6), 1941-1958. link>
  • GNEVYSHEV V and SHRIRA V. 1989. DYNAMICS OF ROSSBY-WAVE PACKETS IN THE VICINITY OF ZONAL CRITICAL LAYERS WITH ACCOUNT OF VISCOSITY. IZVESTIYA AKADEMII NAUK SSSR FIZIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA, vol. 25(10), 1064-1074. link>
  • GNEVYSHEV V and SHRIRA V. 1989. MONOCHROMATIC ROSSBY-TRANSFORMATION IN ZONAL FLOW CRITICAL LAYERS. IZVESTIYA AKADEMII NAUK SSSR FIZIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA, vol. 25(8), 852-862. link>
  • GNEVYSHEV V and SHRIRA V. 1989. KINEMATICS OF ROSSBY WAVES ON NON-UNIFORM MERIDIONAL CURRENT. OKEANOLOGIYA, vol. 29(4), 543-548. link>
  • BADULIN S and SHRIRA V. 1989. TRANSFORMATION OF INTERNAL WAVES SPECTRA ON HORIZONTALLY NON-UNIFORM LARGE-SCALE CURRENTS. OKEANOLOGIYA, vol. 29(3), 372-379. link>
  • GNEVYSHEV V and SHRIRA V. 1989. ON THE EVALUATION OF BAROTHROPIC-BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY PARAMETERS OF THE ZONAL FLOWS ON BETA-PLANE. DOKLADY AKADEMII NAUK SSSR, vol. 306(2), 305-309. link>
  • SHRIRA V. 1989. ON THE SUBSURFACE WAVES IN THE OCEANIC UPPER MIXED LAYER. DOKLADY AKADEMII NAUK SSSR, vol. 308(3), 732-736. link>
  • ROMANOVA N and SHRIRA V. 1988. EXPLOSIVE GENERATION OF WATER-WAVES BY WIND. IZVESTIYA AKADEMII NAUK SSSR FIZIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA, vol. 24(7), 723-734. link>
  • SHRIRA V. 1986. THE LONG STRONGLY NONLINEAR-WAVES IN ROTATING OCEAN. IZVESTIYA AKADEMII NAUK SSSR FIZIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA, vol. 22(4), 395-405. link>
  • SHRIRA V. 1986. NONLINEAR-WAVES AT THE SURFACE OF A FLUID LAYER WITH CONSTANT VORTICITY. DOKLADY AKADEMII NAUK SSSR, vol. 286(6), 1332-1336. link>
  • BADULIN S, SHRIRA V, TSIMRING L. 1985. THE TRAPPING AND VERTICAL FOCUSING OF INTERNAL WAVES IN A PYCNOCLINE DUE TO THE HORIZONTAL INHOMOGENEITIES OF DENSITY AND CURRENTS. JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, vol. 158(SEP), 199-218. link> doi>
  • BADULIN S and SHRIRA V. 1985. TRAPPING OF INTERNAL WAVES BY HORIZONTALLY INHOMOGENEOUS CURRENTS OF ARBITRARY GEOMETRY. IZVESTIYA AKADEMII NAUK SSSR FIZIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA, vol. 21(9), 982-992. link>
  • BUNIMOVICH L and SHRIRA V. 1984. THE RELATION BETWEEN SPATIAL INTERMITTENCE OF AN OCEANIC INTERNAL WAVE FIELD AND ITS RELAXATION-TIME SCALES. DOKLADY AKADEMII NAUK SSSR, vol. 276(6), 1460-1464. link>
  • BADULIN S, TSIMRING L, SHRIRA V. 1983. TRAPPING AND VERTICAL FOCUSING OF INTERNAL WAVES IN THE PYCNOCLINE DUE TO HORIZONTAL INHOMOGENEITIES OF THE STRATIFICATION AND CURRENTS. DOKLADY AKADEMII NAUK SSSR, vol. 273(2), 459-463. link>
  • SHRIRA V. 1981. ON THE PROPAGATION OF A 3-DIMENSIONAL PACKET OF WEAKLY NON-LINEAR INTERNAL GRAVITY-WAVES. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NON-LINEAR MECHANICS, vol. 16(2), 129-138. link> doi>
  • SHRIRA V. 1981. THE PROPAGATION OF LONG NON-LINEAR WAVES IN THE LAYER OF ROTATING FLUID. IZVESTIYA AKADEMII NAUK SSSR FIZIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA, vol. 17(1), 76-81. link>
  • SHRIRA V. 1980. NON-LINEAR REFRACTION OF SOLITONS. ZHURNAL EKSPERIMENTALNOI I TEORETICHESKOI FIZIKI, vol. 79(1), 87-98. link>
  • SHRIRA V. 1980. ON THE EVOLUTION OF A WEAK-NONLINEAR INERTIAL WAVE PACKET. OKEANOLOGIYA, vol. 20(2), 197-203. link>
  • SHRIRA V. 1980. ON THE RESONANCE SELF-ACTION OF INTERNAL WAVES. DOKLADY AKADEMII NAUK SSSR, vol. 255(1), 201-205. link>
  • OSTROVSKY L and SHRIRA V. 1976. INSTABILITY AND SELF-REFRACTION OF SOLITONS. ZHURNAL EKSPERIMENTALNOI I TEORETICHESKOI FIZIKI, vol. 71(10), 1412-1420. link>
  • Shrira VI, BADULIN S, Voronovich AG. Electromagnetic wave scattering from the sea surface in the presence of wind wave patterns. International Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 24(24), 5049. doi>

Other

  • Shrira VI and Townsend WA. 2010. Deep ocean mixing by near-inertial waves. IUTAM SYMPOSIUM ON TURBULENCE IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEANS (vol. 28, pp. 63-73). link> doi>
  • Caulliez G, Dupont R, Shrira VI. 2007. Turbulence generation in the wind-driven subsurface water flow. TRANSPORT AT THE AIR-SEA INTERFACE: MEASUREMENTS, MODELS AND PARAMETRIZATIONS (pp. 103-117). link> doi>
  • Shrira VI, Caulliez G, Ivonin DV. 2005. A bypass scenario of laminar-turbulent transition in the wind-driven free-surface boundary layer. IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Finite Amplitude Solutions (vol. 77, pp. 267-288). link>
  • Shrira VI, Badulin SI, Voronovich AG. 2000. EM scattering from sea surface in the presence of wind wave patterns. IGARSS 2000: IEEE 2000 INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM, VOL I - VI, PROCEEDINGS (pp. 926-928). link>
  • Ivonin D, Shrira V, Broche P, PACON, PACON. 2000. On remote sensing of vertical profile of ocean surface currents by means of one-frequency VHF radar. PACON 99 PROCEEDINGS (pp. 49-53). link>
  • Shrira VI, Ivonin DI, Broche P, de Maistre JC. 2000. On remote sensing of vertical profile of ocean surface currents by means of single-frequency VHF radars. IGARSS 2000: IEEE 2000 INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM, VOL I - VI, PROCEEDINGS (pp. 1860-1862). link>

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