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Numerical modelling of flux spectra formation for surface gravity waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

V. G. Polnikov
V. G. Polnikov
Affiliation:
Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 2 Kapitanskaya st., 335000 Sevastopol, Ukraine
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Abstract

By means of direct numerical solution of the kinetic equation for surface gravity waves, it is shown that under certain conditions the constant flux spectra of nonlinear waves, first predicted by Zakharov & Filonenko (1966) for an infinite frequency domain, can be formed in a finite frequency interval. For the case of angular isotropic spectra the conditions and timescales of this flux spectra formation are evaluated.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 278 , 10 November 1994 , pp. 289 - 296
Copyright
© 1994 Cambridge University Press

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