Coexistence of Weak and Strong Wave Turbulence in a Swell Propagation

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2007-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/0705.2838v1

V.E. Zakharov, A.O. Korotkevich, A.N. Pushkarev, and D. Resio, Coexistence of Weak and Strong Wave Turbulence in a Swell Propa

Physics

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics

5 pages, 5 figures, Submitted in Phys. Rev. Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.164501

By performing two parallel numerical experiments -- solving the dynamical Hamiltonian equations and solving the Hasselmann kinetic equation -- we examined the applicability of the theory of weak turbulence to the description of the time evolution of an ensemble of free surface waves (a swell) on deep water. We observed qualitative coincidence of the results. To achieve quantitative coincidence, we augmented the kinetic equation by an empirical dissipation term modelling the strongly nonlinear process of white-capping. Fitting the two experiments, we determined the dissipation function due to wave breaking and found that it depends very sharply on the parameter of nonlinearity (the surface steepness). The onset of white-capping can be compared to a second-order phase transition. This result corroborates with experimental observations by Banner, Babanin, Young.

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