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)

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)

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• Extreme wave statistics in combined and partitioned windsea and swell
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• The growth of wind waves at the crests and troughs of a low amplitude swell
• Weak or strong nonlinearity: the vital issue
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• Interaction between a Stokes wave packet and a solitary wave
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• 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?
• Asymptotic dynamics of monochromatic short surface wind waves
• Blocking dynamics of capillary-gravity waves in a two-layer fluid in the presence of surface and interfacial tensions

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