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8 papers
The role of Lagrangian drift in the generation of surface waves by wind
L. R. Seitz, Mara A. Freilich, Nick Pizzo
A nonlinear stability analysis entirely in the Lagrangian frame is conducted, revealing the fundamental role of the wave-induced mean flow in modifying further wave growth and prov…
Exact planetary waves and jet streams
Nick Pizzo, Rick Salmon
We investigate exact nonlinear waves on surfaces locally approximating the rotating sphere for two-dimensional inviscid incompressible flow. Our first system corresponds to a beta-…
Deep flows transmitted by forced surface gravity waves
Nick Pizzo, Gregory L. Wagner
We examine a two-dimensional deep-water surface gravity wave packet generated by a pressure disturbance in the Lagrangian reference frame. The pressure disturbance has the form of…
Momentum, energy and vorticity balances in deep-water surface gravity waves
Aidan Blaser, Raphaël Benamran, A. Bia Villas Bôas +2
The particle trajectories in irrotational, incompressible and inviscid deep-water surface gravity waves are open, leading to a net drift in the direction of wave propagation common…
Transition to turbulence in wind-drift layers
Gregory LeClaire Wagner, Nick Pizzo, Luc Lenain +1
A light breeze rising over calm water initiates an intricate chain of events that culminates in a centimeters-deep turbulent shear layer capped by gravity-capillary ripples. At fir…
The influence of spectral bandwidth and shape on deep-water wave breaking onset
M. L. McAllister, N. Pizzo, S. Draycott +1
Deep-water surface wave breaking affects the transfer of mass, momentum, energy and heat between the air and sea. Understanding when and how the onset of wave breaking will occur r…
Two-dimensional flow on the sphere
Rick Salmon, Nick Pizzo
Equilibrium statistical mechanics predicts that inviscid, two-dimensional, incompressible flow on the sphere eventually reaches a state in which spherical harmonic modes of degrees…
Particle description of the interaction between wave packets and point vortices
Nick Pizzo, Rick Salmon
This paper explores an idealized model of the ocean surface in which widely separated surface-wave packets and point vortices interact in two horizontal dimensions. We start with a…