Evidence of the critical layer mechanism in growing wind waves

DOI10.1017/jfm.2022.714zbMath1497.76010OpenAlexW4295219504MaRDI QIDQ5104172

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Publication date: 9 September 2022

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.714

zbMATH Keywords

air-sea interactionshear-flow instabilityocean processincompressible inviscid two-dimensional flowMiles critical layer mechanism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05)

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