Weak Turbulent Kolmogorov Spectrum for Surface Gravity Waves
Fluid Dynamics
2007-05-23 v2 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
Computational Physics
Abstract
We study the long-time evolution of gravity waves on deep water exited by the stochastic external force concentrated in moderately small wave numbers. We numerically implement the primitive Euler equations for the potential flow of an ideal fluid with free surface written in canonical variables, using expansion of the Hamiltonian in powers of nonlinearity of up to fourth order terms. We show that due to nonlinear interaction processes a stationary energy spectrum close to is formed. The observed spectrum can be interpreted as a weak-turbulent Kolmogorov spectrum for a direct cascade of energy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0308099,
title = {Weak Turbulent Kolmogorov Spectrum for Surface Gravity Waves},
author = {A. I. Dyachenko and A. O. Korotkevich and V. E. Zakharov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0308099},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures