On surface gravity waves crossing weak current jets

DOI10.1017/S0022112083003365zbMath0541.76018OpenAlexW2110569414MaRDI QIDQ3328975

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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

causticsLangmuir circulation\(\cos^ 2\,x\) profilenarrow 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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Cites Work

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

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