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Turbulent structure in water under laboratory wind waves
Authors:Ikuo Yoshikawa  Hiroshi Kawamura  Kuniaki Okuda  Yoshiaki Toba
Institution:(1) Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, 980 Sendai, Japan;(2) Present address: Kobe Marine Observatory, 650 Kobe, Japan;(3) Tohoku Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory, 985 Shiogama, Japan
Abstract:The structure of the turbulent boundary layer underneath laboratory wind waves was studied by using a combination of a high-sensitivity thermometer array with a two-component sonic flowmeter. The temperature fluctuations are used to detect movements of water parcels, with temperature as a passive quantity. The turbulence energy was dominant in the frequency range (0.01 sim 0.1 Hz), which was much smaller than the wind-wave frequency (2 sim 5 Hz), and in which the turbulence was anisotropic. There was a frequency range (0.2 sim 2 Hz for velocity, 0.2 sim 5 Hz for temperature fluctuation) where the turbulence was isotropic and had a –5/3 slope in the energy spectrum. These points are the same as those in previous works. However, by analyses of the time series by using a variable-interval time-averaging technique (VITA), it has been found that conspicuous events in this main turbulence energy band are the downward bursting from the vicinity of the water surface. Thus the structure of the water layer underneath the wind waves has characters which are similar to the familiar turbulent boundary layer over a rough solid wall, as already conceived. It has been found that, at the same time, the turbulence energy can be related to quantities of the wind waves (the root mean squared water level fluctuation and the wave peak frequency), for different wind and wave conditions. That is, the turbulence underneath the wind waves develops under a close coupling with the wind waves.
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