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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…
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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…
physics.flu-dyn2023
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…