Short-scale waves on wind-driven water (‘cat’s paws’)

DOI10.1098/rspa.1987.0025zbMath0621.76045OpenAlexW1979487046MaRDI QIDQ3758437

P. J. Blennerhassett, Frank T. Smith

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1987.0025

zbMATH Keywords

surface tensionshear stressesperturbation expansionsLinear stability theorylocal viscous forcesneutrally stable wave solutionsshort scale wavesstream function amplitudesunidirectional laminar flowweakly forced water waveswind-wave generation theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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