Model of vertical mixing induced by wind waves

DOI10.1134/S0015462820010103MaRDI QIDQ2238157zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors V. G. Polnikov

Publication date 29 October 2021

Published in Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03609

zbMATH Keywords

air-water interfaceNavier-Stokes equationsPrandtl approximationReynolds stressturbulencewave stress

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Waves for incompressible viscous fluids (76D33) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Abstract: In the Navier-Stokes equations, a current is decomposed into four constituents: the mean flow, wave-orbital motion, wave-induced-turbulent and background-turbulent currents. Under certain statistical assumptions, this allows to separate the wave-induced Reynolds stress from the background one. To close the wave-induced Reynolds stress, the Prandtl approach for the wave-induced fluctuations is used, resulting in the implicit expression for the wave-induced vertical mixing function, B. Expression for B is specified, basing on the author results for the turbulent viscosity, found earlier in the frame of the three-layer concept for the air-sea interface. The explicit expression for function B is linear in both wave amplitude and friction velocity in the air. Due to exponential decay of wave amplitude, the found result means the possibility of the enhanced impact of waves on the vertical mixing and related geophysical processes, compared to the known cubic wave-amplitude dependence for B, found by Qiao et al previously.

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