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A note on the interaction between surface waves and wind profiles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

John W. Miles
John W. Miles
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra
Present address: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, San Diego.
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Abstract

The modification of a turbulent wind profile owing to momentum transfer from wind to surface waves is calculated in terms of the power spectrum of the surface-wave slope. The reduction in profile curvature, and hence of the wind-to-wave energy-transfer coefficient, is estimated on the basis of a Neumann spectrum. It appears that this reduction is likely to be small for typical wind speeds.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 1965 , pp. 823 - 827
Copyright
© 1965 Cambridge University Press

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