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Effects of wavelength ratio on wave modelling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Jun Zhang ,
Keyyong Hong  and
Dick K. P. Yue
Jun Zhang
Affiliation:
Ocean Engineering Program, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-3136, USA
Keyyong Hong
Affiliation:
Ocean Engineering Program, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-3136, USA
Dick K. P. Yue
Affiliation:
Department of Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Abstract

The efficacy of perturbation approaches for short–long wave interactions is examined by considering a simple case of two interacting wave trains with different wavelengths. Frequency-domain solutions are derived up to third order in wave steepness using two different formulations: one employing conventional wave-mode functions only, and the other introducing a modulated wave-mode representation for the short-wavelength wave. For long-wavelength wave steepness and short-to-long wavelength ratio ε1 and ε3 respectively, the two results are shown to be identical for ε1 [Lt ] ε3 < 0.5. As ε1 approaches ε3, the conventional wave-mode approach converges slowly and eventually diverges for ε1 [Gt ] ε3. The loss of convergence is because the linear phase of conventional wave-mode functions is ineffective for modelling the modulated phase of the short wave. As expected, this difficulty can be removed by using a modulated wave-mode function for the short wave. On the other hand, for relatively large ε3 ∼O(1), the conventional wave-mode approach converges rapidly while the slowly varying interaction between the two waves cannot be accurately predicted by the present modulated wave-mode approach. These findings have important implications to (time-domain) numerical simulations of the nonlinear evolution of ocean wave fields, and suggest that a hybrid wave model employing both conventional (for large-ε3 interactions) and modulated (for small-ε3 interactions) wave-mode functions should be particularly effective.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 248 , March 1993 , pp. 107 - 127
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© 1993 Cambridge University Press

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