On weakly turbulent scaling of wind sea in simulations of fetch-limited growth

DOI10.1017/S0022112010004921zbMath1225.76052MaRDI QIDQ3097708

Elodie Gagnaire-Renou, Sergei I. Badulin, Michel Benoit

Publication date: 10 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112010004921

zbMATH Keywords

surface gravity waves; waves/free-surface flows; wind-wave interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

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

76M35: Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics

86A10: Meteorology and atmospheric physics

76F99: Turbulence

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