Abstract
The possibilities of applying the philosophy of weakly turbulent Kolmogorov spectra to real wind waves are investigated. On the basis of theoretical estimates of the wave-wind interaction and experimental data, it is shown that the generation ranges in the kinetic equation for a wind wave spectrum which make the principal contribution to the integral values of the momentum, energy and action flows to waves from the atmosphere are localized in a region of fairly small scales. The dissipation related to wave breaking is concentrated in an even more fine-scaled region, and therefore in the case of fairly developed wave motion one may expect that the scales of the energy-containing vicinity of the spectral maximum and the scales of the generation and dissipation ranges are far apart.
| Translated title of the contribution | Generation and Dissipation Ranges in the Kinetic Equation of the Weakly Turbulent Theory of Wind Waves. |
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| Original language | Russian |
| Pages (from-to) | 1066-1076 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Izvestia Akademii nauk SSSR. Fizika atmosfery i okeana |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| State | Published - 1982 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering