The velocity field under breaking waves: coherent structures and turbulence

By W. Melville, Fabrice Veron, C. White. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2002

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography

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On the Interaction of Surface Waves and Upper Ocean Turbulence (2006, background): “Yet, very close to the surface, wave breaking is a source of both TKE and momentum, concentrated over a distance that spans about 4% of the wavelength of breaking waves (Melville et al. 2002).”
Surface gravity wave effects in the oceanic boundary layer: large-eddy simulation with vortex force and stochastic breakers (2007, methodology): “In §§ 2 and 3 we use bulk momentum and energy conservation arguments along with data from Terray et al. (1996), Melville & Matusov (2002), Melville et al. (2002) in the wind speed range Ua ∼ 7−15 m s−1 to build a breaker distribution with Ua and cp/u∗a dependences.”
A global wave parameter database for geophysical applications. Part 1: Wave-current turbulence interaction parameters for the open ocean based on traditional parameterizations (2008, background): “The roughness length z0 is physically understood as the scale of the breaking waves and related eddies that are responsible for the high mixing levels close to the surface (Kitaigorodskii, 1994; Melville et al., 2002).”
Capillary effects on wave breaking (2015, background): “2008; Sutherland & Melville 2013), laboratory experiments on wave breaking (Melville & Rapp 1985; Tulin & Waseda 1999; Rapp & Melville 1990; Melville et al. 2002; Banner & Peirson 2007; Drazen et al. 2008), and the dissipation induced by smaller scales involving surface tension, like micro-breaking,”
Inertial scaling of dissipation in unsteady breaking waves (2008, methodology): “(2004) found that the model agreed well with experimental data from a single unsteady breaking wave (Melville et al. 2002).”
LARGE EDDY SIMULATION OF THE OCEAN MIXED LAYER: THE EFFECTS OF WAVE BREAKING AND LANGMUIR CIRCULATION (2004, methodology): “…in the future study by utilizing more accurate observation data, by reflecting the process of turbulence generation by wave breaking (Melville 1994; Melville et al. 2002), and possibly by including the information of wave fields (Terray et al. 1996; Drennan et al. 1996; Gemmrich and Farmer 1999).”
Dynamics of Winds and Currents Coupled to Surface Waves (2010, background): “Wave breaking induces transient airflow separation, halts wave growth, sporadically injects momentum into the water column (Banner & Peirson 1998, Donelan 1998, Melville et al. 2002), and at sufficiently high wind speeds controls air-sea gas fluxes (Wanninkhof et al. 2009).”
Experiments on the stability and transition of wind-driven water surfaces (2001, background): “Modern theories of wind-wave generation begin with Miles’ (1957) consideration of an inviscid instability of the shear flow in the air, which paid particular attention to the role of the critical layer at which the wind speed matches the phase speed of the waves.”