Improved linear representation of ocean surface waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112089001977zbMath0675.76012MaRDI QIDQ3830670

Dennis B. Creamer, Jon Wright, Roy Schult, Frank S. Henyey

Publication date: 1989

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

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian structurelinear dynamicssurface potentialsurface elevationirrotational, surface gravity waveslowest-order nonlinearities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Cites Work

• Eulerian and Lagrangian aspects of surface waves
• Spectral and statistical properties of the equilibrium range in wind-generated gravity waves
• The energy and action of small waves riding on large waves
• Hamiltonian formulations for surface waves
• Computer extension and analytic continuation of Stokes’ expansion for gravity waves

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