On interaction between intermediate-depth long waves and deep-water short waves |
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Authors: | Lianxiang Chen Jun Zhang |
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Institution: | affl1Ocean Engineering Program, Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&;M University, College Station, TX 77843-3136, USA |
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Abstract: | The interaction between a unidirectional deep-water short-wave train and an intermediate water-depth long wave is studied. The steady solutions are derived up to third order in wave steepness, respectively, using two different approaches: a conventional perturbation method employing linear phase functions to describe both long- and short-wave phases and a phase modulation method using a modulational phase function to model the short-wave phase. The two results are shown to be identical for a parametric range χ1 coth Kdχ3 ≤ 0.5, where χ3 is the short-to-long wavelength ratio, χ1 and K are, respectively, the long-wave steepness and wavenumber, and d the water depth. When χ1 coth Kd approaches χ3, the conventional solution converges slowly and eventually diverges for χ1 coth Kdχ1. The slow convergence of the conventional solution results from the approximation of a modulated short-wave phase by a linear phase formulation. In addition to the increasing modulation of the short-wave phase, amplitude and wavenumber as the water depth decreases, it is found that the modulation of the short-wave intrinsic frequency and potential amplitude along the long-wave surface become significant. Previous results about virtually non-modulated short-wave intrinsic frequency and potential amplitude are only limited to the case of unidirectional wave modulation in very deep water. |
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