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Stokes waves in water with a non-flat bed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2014

A. Constantin
A. Constantin*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UKFaculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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†Email address for correspondence: adrian.constantin@kcl.ac.uk
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We investigate the relevance of Stokes waves for the propagation of ocean swell in the absence of strong currents. By providing estimates for the depth of the near-surface layer to which the main effects of a Stokes flow are confined, we show that wind-generated uniform wave trains can be modelled as Stokes waves over a fictitious flat bed, immersed in the water. Throughout the lower parts of this layer the deviations of the flow from a pure current are negligible.

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Waves/Free-surface Flows: Surface gravity wavesWaves/Free-surface Flows: Waves/Free-surface Flows

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 740 , 10 February 2014, pp. 17 - 27
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