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Geometric and kinematic indicators of breaking inception in surface gravity waves
Daniel G. Boettger, Shane R. Keating, Michael L. Banner +1
The process of breaking in surface gravity waves can be characterized by two distinct stages. Breaking onset, defined as the first visible surface manifestation of breaking, is pre…
The energetic inception of breaking in surface gravity waves under wind forcing
Daniel G. Boettger, Shane R. Keating, Michael L. Banner +2
The breaking of surface gravity waves is a key process contributing to air-sea fluxes and turbulent ocean mixing. The highly nonlinear nature of wave breaking, combined with the ch…
An energetic signature for breaking inception in surface gravity waves
Daniel G. Boettger, Shane R. Keating, Michael L. Banner +2
A dynamical understanding of the physical process of surface gravity wave breaking remains an unresolved problem in fluid dynamics. Conceptually, breaking can be described by incep…
On the energetics of breaking inception and onset in surface gravity waves
Daniel G. Boettger, Michael L. Banner, Xavier Barthélémy +2
Accurate prediction of the onset and strength of breaking surface gravity waves is a long-standing problem of significant theoretical and applied interest. Recently, Barthélémy et…
A unified breaking onset criterion for surface gravity water waves in arbitrary depth
Morteza Derakhti, James T. Kirby, Michael L. Banner +2
We investigate the validity and robustness of the Barthelemy et al. (2018) breaking wave onset prediction framework for surface gravity water waves in arbitrary water depth, includ…
Crest speeds of unsteady surface water waves
Francesco Fedele, Michael L. Banner, Xavier Barthelemy
Intuitively, crest speeds of water waves are assumed to match their phase velocities. However, this is generally not the case for natural waves within unsteady wave groups. This mo…
Progress during the NOPP Wave Model Improvement Program
Donald T. Resio, Charles L. Vincent, Hendrik L. Tolman +15
This paper reviews the research activities that were carried out under the auspices of the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) to advance research in wind wave modeling and t…
Predicting the breaking strength of gravity water waves
M. Derakhti, M. L. Banner, J. T. Kirby
We revisit the classical but as yet unresolved problem of predicting the strength of breaking 2-D and 3-D gravity water waves, as quantified by the amount of wave energy dissipated…
Wave breaking onset of two-dimensional wave groups in uniform intermediate depth water
Arvin Saket, William L. Peirson, Michael L. Banner +1
Using the same measurement techniques as those of Saket et al. (2017), we have investigated the breaking threshold proposed by Barthelemy et al. (arXiv:1508.06002v1, 2015b) but for…
On the Upper Ocean Turbulent Dissipation Rate due to Very Short Breaking Wind-Waves
Michael L. Banner, Russel P. Morison
Sutherland and Melville (2015a) investigated the relative contributions to the total dissipation rate in the ocean surface wave boundary layer of different breaking wave scales, fr…
Wave breaking onset of two-dimensional deep-water wave groups in the presence and absence of wind
Arvin Saket, William L. Peirson, Michael L. Banner +2
The criterion for the initiation of breaking demonstrated numerically by Barthelemy et al. (2015) has been investigated in the laboratory for unidirectional wave groups in deep-wat…
On the local properties of highly nonlinear unsteady gravity water waves. Part 1. Slowdown, kinematics and energetics
X. Barthelemy, M. L. Banner, W. L. Peirson +2
The kinematic properties of unsteady highly non-linear 3D wave groups have been investigated using a numerical wave tank. Although carrier wave speeds based on zero-crossing analys…
On a unified breaking onset threshold for gravity waves in deep and intermediate depth water
X. Barthelemy, M. L. Banner, W. L. Peirson +3
We revisit the classical but as yet unresolved problem of predicting the breaking onset of 2D and 3D irrotational gravity water waves. This study focuses on domains with flat botto…
Linking reduced breaking crest speeds to unsteady nonlinear water wave group behavior
Michael Banner, Xavier Barthelemy, Francesco Fedele +4
Observations show that maximally-steep breaking water wave crest speeds are much slower than expected. We report a wave-crest slowdown mechanism generic to unsteady propagating dee…