On surface gravity waves crossing weak current jets

DOI10.1017/S0022112083003365MaRDI QIDQ3328975zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 1983

Published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112083003365

zbMATH Keywords

\(\cos^ 2\,x\) profilecausticsLangmuir circulationnarrow jetsparallel vortex sheetstop-hat current patternwave/current interactionwind streakswind-wave amplitudes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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• Giant waves
• On the disturbed motion of a plane vortex sheet
• The generation of Langmuir circulations by an instability mechanism
• The transmission of deep-water waves across a vortex sheet
• Wave breaking in the presence of wind drift and swell

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• Surface waves on an inviscid shear flow in a channel
• Refraction of gravity waves by weak current gradients
• A simple model of wave-current interaction
• On surface waves crossing a step with horizontal shear
• Trapped waves on jet currents: asymptotic modal approach
• Propagation of obliquely incident water waves over a trench. Part 2. Currents flowing along the trench
• Dense gravity currents moving beneath progressive free-surface water waves

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