The growth of wind waves at the crests and troughs of a low amplitude swell

DOI10.1063/1.869285zbMath1185.86009OpenAlexW2078165567MaRDI QIDQ5755695

L. C. Morland

Publication date: 15 August 2007

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.869285

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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