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Vertically Driven Waves: Energy Transfer Between Gravity Waves Revisited
Clifford Chafin
We investigate the energy transfer from large waves to small ones through vertical acceleration and demonstrate that this is a much larger effect than that of the potential energy…
Hidden Equilibration Driven Losses in Whitecapping
Clifford Chafin
The role of whitecapping losses of waves is investigated in a simple model based on conservation laws. It is shown that, for Airy waves, at least as much energy is lost in gradual…
Conservation Laws and Bounds on the Efficiency of Wind-Wave Growth
Clifford Chafin
We examine two means by which wind can impart energy to waves: sheltering and deposition of material upwards from windward surface shear. The shear driven deposition is shown to be…
Surface Shear and Persistent Wave Groups
Clifford Chafin
We investigate the interaction of waves with surface flows by considering the full set of conserved quantities, subtle but important surface elevation changes induced by wave packe…