Wind Over Waves

Forecasting and Fundamentals of Applications

S G Sajjadi, J C R Hunt

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9781898563815
• eBook ISBN:
  9780857099532
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Oceanography

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. - Addresses ocean wave processes and turbulence as they affect oceanography, meteorology, marine and coastal engineering - Focuses on analytical and computational methods for solving equations of motion and studying non-linear aspects of waves and turbulence - Records the proceedings of the Wind Over Waves conference of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications at Churchill College, Cambridge

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Wind Over Waves II: Forecasting and Fundamentals of Applications
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• TAM-day musings: † A poem to celebrate TAM-day, 27th August 2001
• Contributors
• PLATE 1. Conference participants in the grounds of the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge
• Chapter 1. INI Water Waves Conference Opening Remarks
• Chapter 2. G.G. Stokes and His Precursors on Water Wave Theory
• Chapter 3. Is the Logarithmic Wind Law Valid Over the Sea?
• Chapter 4. On the Accuracy of Ocean Winds and Wind Stress — An Emperical Assesment
• Chapter 5. Wind-Over-Waves Coupling
• Chapter 6. Sea Surface Roughness Parameterization
• Chapter 7. Direction of Wind Stress Vector Over Waves
• Chapter 8. An Improved Parameterization for Energy Exchange from Wind to Stokes Waves
• Chapter 9. Wind-Generated Water Waves: Two Overlooked Mechanisms?
• Chapter 10. On the Relative Importance of Wind Forcing and Nonlinear Interactions in the Downshift of a Gravity Wave Wavenumber S pect r urn
• Chapter 11. Search for Characteristics of Deterministic Dynamics in Wind Wave Data
• Chapter 12. Vorticity Dynamics in the Water Below Steep and Breaking Surface Waves
• Chapter 13. Langmuir Circulations
• Chapter 14. Dispersive Dynamics of Waves in Euler Systems
• Chapter 15. Benjamin Memorial Lecture: Stability of Solitary Waves: Geometry, Symplecticity and T hree-Dimensionality
• Chapter 16. Kinematical Conservation Laws Applied to Study Geometrical Shapes of a Solitary Wave
• Chapter 17. Standing Waves in the Ocean
• Chapter 18. Discretising Barrick’s Equations