The propagation of short surface waves on longer gravity waves

DOI10.1017/S002211208700096XzbMATH Open0616.76022MaRDI QIDQ4725909FDOQ4725909

Authors: M. S. Longuet-Higgins 

Publication date: 1987

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

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zbMATH Keywords

wave propagationlinearized theoryfully nonlinear theorysea surfaceshort gravity wavesfree, irrotational gravity wavesgravity waves of finite amplitudeshort-wave breakingsurface wind-drift currents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Cites Work

• Theory of the almost-highest wave: the inner solution
• Theory of the almost-highest wave. Part 2. Matching and analytic extension
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• Changes in the form of short gravity waves on long waves and tidal currents
• The dispersion of short wavelets in the presence of a dominant long wave
• Bifurcation in gravity waves

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• Extreme wave statistics in combined and partitioned windsea and swell
• Fourth-order Lagrangian of short waves riding on long waves
• The distortion of short internal waves produced by a long wave, with application to ocean boundary mixing
• Asymptotic dynamics of monochromatic short surface wind waves
• The modulation of short waves riding on solitary waves
• Short wave phase shifts by large free surface solitary waves: Experiments and models
• Crest speeds of unsteady surface water waves
• Two-dimensional modulation and instability of a short wave riding on a finite-amplitude long wave
• Evolution of short gravity waves on long gravity waves
• Interaction between a Stokes wave packet and a solitary wave
• The growth of wind waves at the crests and troughs of a low amplitude swell
• Weak or strong nonlinearity: the vital issue
• Blocking dynamics of capillary-gravity waves in a two-layer fluid in the presence of surface and interfacial tensions
• Evolution of a short surface wave on a very long surface wave of finite amplitude
• Evolution of weakly nonlinear short waves riding on long gravity waves
• On high-order perturbation expansion for the study of long–short wave interactions
• Can swell increase the number of freak waves in a wind sea?
• The blockage of gravity and capillary waves by longer waves and currents
• On the stability of weakly nonlinear short waves on finite-amplitude long gravity waves

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