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The last decade has seen a significant increase in the number of studies devoted to wave turbulence. Many deal with water waves, as modeling of ocean waves has historically motivated the development of weak turbulence theory, which adresses…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-09 Eric Falcon , Nicolas Mordant

Direct phase-resolved simulations are performed to investigate the propagation and scattering of nonlinear ocean waves in fragmented sea ice. The numerical model solves the full time-dependent equations for nonlinear potential flow coupled…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-30 Boyang Xu , Philippe Guyenne

We study the flow of particle-laden turbidity currents down a slope and over an obstacle. A high-resolution 2D computer simulation model is used, based on the Navier-Stokes equations. It includes poly-disperse particle grain sizes in the…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Moshe Strauss , Michael E. Glinsky

Numerical simulations of magnetosonic wave formation driven by an expanding cylindrical piston are performed to get better physical insight into the initiation and evolution of large-scale coronal waves. Several very basic initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Lulić , B. Vršnak , T. Žic , I. W. Kienreich , N. Muhr , M. Temmer , A. M. Veronig

A wind passing over a surface may cause an instability in the surface such as the flapping seen when wind blows across a flag or waves when wind blows across water. We show that when a radially outflowing wind blows across a dense thin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. C. Quillen

We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the formation of surface waves in vertically vibrated granular material. We find that horizontal movements of particles, which are essential for the formation of the waves, consist of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jysoo Lee

Wind farms, particularly offshore clusters, are becoming larger than ever before. Besides influencing wind farms and local meteorology downstream, large wind farms can trigger atmospheric gravity waves in the inversion layer and the free…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Mehtab Ahmed Khan , Dries Allaerts , Simon Watson , Matthew Churchfield

We study experimentally the dynamics and statistics of capillary waves forced by random steep gravity waves mechanically generated in laboratory. Capillary waves are produced here by gravity waves from nonlinear wave interactions. Using a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Michael Berhanu , Eric Falcon , Luc Deike

Ocean turbulence at meso- and submesocales affects the propagation of surface waves through refraction and scattering, inducing spatial modulations in significant wave height (SWH). We develop a theoretical framework that relates these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-05 Han Wang , Ana B. Villas Bôas , Jacques Vanneste , William R. Young

In recent papers, denoted by MG24, MG25 in this text, we used the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and its two-dimensional extension, the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation to describe the evolution of wind-driven water wave packets in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-03 Montri Maleewong , Roger Grimshaw

Spatially developing round jet flows are fundamental to numerous engineering applications. This letter applies the wave-particle turbulence simulation (WPTS) method, a recently developed multiscale approach, to simulate a spatially…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-22 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

Waves of spanwise velocity imposed at the walls of a plane turbulent channel flow are studied by Direct Numerical Simulations. We consider sinusoidal waves of spanwise velocity which vary in time and are modulated in space along the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Quadrio , P. Ricco , C. Viotti

A new model other than the classical ones given by Airy, Stokes and Gerstner for the ocean surface wave is constructed. It leads to new understandings for the wave mechanisms: (1) A wave with bigger amplitude or smaller steepness travels…

General Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Jin-Liang Wang

The currents in the ocean have a serious impact on ocean dynamics, since they affect the transport of mass and thus the distribution of salinity, nutrients and pollutants. In many physically important situations the current depends…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Conor Curtin , Rossen Ivanov

In this work we study the generation of water waves by an underwater sliding mass. The wave dynamics are assumed to fell into the shallow water regime. However, the characteristic wavelength of the free surface motion is generally smaller…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-02-20 Denys Dutykh , Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Sonya Beysel , Nina Shokina

Ocean swell plays an important role in the transport of energy across the ocean, yet its evolution is still not well understood. In the late 1960s, the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (NLS) equation was derived as a model for the propagation of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Camille R. Zaug , John D. Carter

In this paper, theoretical and numerical studies of perfect/nearly-perfect conversion of a plane wave into a surface wave are presented. The problem of determining the electromagnetic properties of an inhomogeneous lossless boundary which…

We consider the wind-forced nonlinear Schroedinger (NLS) equation obtained in the potential flow framework when the Miles growth rate is of the order of the wave steepness. In this case, the form of the wind-forcing terms gives rise to the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Maura Brunetti , Jérôme Kasparian

The wake of an isolated model-scale wind turbine is analysed in a set of inflow conditions having freestream turbulence intensity between 3 % and 12 %, and integral time scales in the range of 0.1 to 10 times the convective timescale based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-31 Stefano Gambuzza , Bharathram Ganapathisubramani

We calculate the rate of ocean waves energy dissipation due to whitecapping by numerical simulation of deterministic phase resolving model for dynamics of ocean surface. Two independent numerical experiments are performed. First, we solve…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 A. O. Korotkevich , A. O. Prokofiev , V. E. Zakharov