Geometric phases of water waves

DOI10.1209/0295-5075/107/69001MaRDI QIDQ6251976zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 31 May 2014

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/107/69001

Abstract: Recently, Banner et al. (2014) highlighted a new fundamental property of open ocean wave groups, the so-called crest slowdown. For linear narrowband waves, this is related to the geometric and dynamical phase velocities

U_{d}

and

U_{g}

associated with the parallel transport through the principal fiber bundle of the wave motion with

m a t h i t U (1)

symmetry. The theoretical predictions are shown to be in fair agreement with ocean field observations, from which the average crest speed

c = U_{d} + U_{g}

with

c / U_{d} a p p r o x 0.8

and

U_{g} / U_{d} a p p r o x - 0.2

.

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