Wind Over Waves
Forecasting and Fundamentals of Applications

S G Sajjadi (Author), J C R Hunt (Author)

9781898563815, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2003

250 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.41 kg

"This title effectively focuses on analytical and computational methods for solving equations of motion and studying non-linear aspects of waves and turbulence. It includes new results that show how sudden gusts and wind over waves can modify the mechanisms of wave-breaking and ocean turbulence." --American Meteorological Society Bulletin

This book addresses ocean wave processes and turbulence as they affect oceanography, meteorology, marine and coastal engineering. It will enable applied mathematicians, seafarers, and all others affected by these phenomena to predict and control wave effects on shipping safety, weather forecasting, offshore structures, sediment pollution, and ice dynamics in polar regions. The focus is on analytical and computational methods for solving equations of motion and studying non-linear aspects of waves and turbulence. Results included show how sudden gusts and winds over waves can modify the mechanisms of wave-breaking and oceanic turbulence.The book records the proceedings of the Wind Over Waves conference of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications at Churchill College, Cambridge. Co-sponsors with the IMA are the Institute of Civil Engineers and the Royal Meteorological Society.

INI water waves conference opening remarks
Water wave theory
Logarithmic wind law validity
Accuracy of ocean winds and wind stress
Wind over waves coupling
Sea surface roughness parameterization
Direction of wind stress vector over waves
Improved parameterization for energy exchange from wind to stokes waves
Mechanisms of wind generated water waves
Wind forcing and non-linear interactions in the downshift of a gravity wave wave-number spectrum
Wind deterministic dynamics in wind wave data
Vorticity water dynamics
Langmuir circulations
Dispersive dynamics of waves in euler systems
Benjamin memorial lecture: Stability of solitary waves: Geometry symplecticity and three-dimensionality
Kinematical conservation laws for geometrical wave shapes
Standing ocean waves
Discretising Barrick’s equations.

Subject Areas: Oceanography [seas RBKC]