Wind-Over-Wave Couplings
Perspectives and Prospects
Published on 29. April 1999
Book
Hardback
380 pages
978-0-19-850192-3 (ISBN)
Description
The way in which wind blows over water and causes waves to be generated is still a very active area of research for applied mathematicians, as well as for oceanographers and engineers. The basic mechanisms are still a matter of controversy, although the use of modern techniques of asymptotic and non-linear analysis and large-scale computation, as well as experimental structures, have begun to demonstrate which are the dominant mechanisms in different types of wind-wave regimes. These studies result in practical methods of forecasting waves and their effects on sediment, pollution, offshore structures, etc., and even lead to methods of controlling them. These are the themes covered by the papers in this book, written by many of the leading authorities in the field.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 halftone, numerous graphs and figures
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
775 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-850192-3 (9780198501923)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
The Quasi-Laminar Model for Wind-to-Wave Energy Transfer ; On the Stimulation of Non-Linear Surface Waves by Wind ; Turbulent Flow over Growing Waves ; Airflow over Wavy Surfaces: Anomalies, A Conjecture and some Results ; Longitudinal Vortices in Wavy Boundary Layers ; Homogeneous Turbulence Approaching a Wavy Surface ; Computations of Flow over Model Hill Forms using Advances Second-Moment Closure Turbulence Models ; Coupling of Waves with the Atmosphere ; Some Aspects of Wind-Wave Coupling at High Winds: an Experimental Study ; Wind and Turbulence Profiles in the Surface Layer Over Ocean Waves ; Structure in the Atmospheric Surface Layer over Open Ocean Waves: Representation in Terms of Phase Averages ; Does the Wind Stress Depend on the Sea State ; Wind Generated Waves on Fabric Structures ; Reminiscences of the Early Days of the Spectrum of Ocean Waves ; Benjamin Memorial Lecture: Side-Band, Benjamin-Feir and Eckhaus Instabilities ; Solitary Waves on Deep Water ; Mutual Transformation of Waves in Smooth Shear Flows ; Flow of Air Over Sharp Crested Water Waves ; Wind-Induced Growth and Attenuation of Laboratory Waves ; Application of System Identification Techniques in Wind Wave Modelling ; Observational Studies of the Surface Velocity Phase ; The Surface Modulation of Internal Waves and their Properties in Response to the Wind Field at the Shelf Break ; Sea Surface Slicks - Surface Chemistry and Hydrodynamics in Radar Remote Sensing ; Effects of Waves in both the Surface and Bottom Boundary Layers ; Drift Current under the Action of Wind and Waves ; Microphysics of Scalar Transfer at Air-Water Interfaces ; Turbulence Structure and Mass Transfer at a Wind-Driven Air-Water Interface ; An Attempt to Simulate the Effect of Wave Breaking on Momentum - and Mass-Transfer by Imposing Intermittent Near-Interface Transport Properties. ; Strong Turbulence at a Free Surface ; Turbulence Modelling Near Interfaces: The Case for TCL Closures ; Effect of Particle Inertia on the Diffusion of Small Particles in Turbulent Wall Boundary Layers ; A Simplified Model for Spatio-Temporal Distributions of Ocean Spray Droplets