Geometry of deep and intermediate water breaking waves influenced by wind speed and direction

Author:

Chen Haifei12ORCID,Zou Qingping3ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA

2. Interdisciplinary Science Cooperative, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA

3. The Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Science and Technology, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

Wind effects on the evolution of a breaking wave group due to dispersive focusing are investigated using a two-phase flow Navier–Stokes solver. The Navier–Stokes equations are solved for both air and water, with the air–water interface captured by the Volume of Fluid method and the turbulence by the Smagorinsky subgrid-scale stress model. The two-phase model is first validated with the experimental measurements with and without following wind action. The following wind delays the breaking and shifts the breaking location downstream, and vice versa for the opposing wind. The wind-induced drift current is mainly responsible for these shifts of breaking time and location. The shift of breaking location and time is approximately linearly proportional to the wind speed (wind induced drift current) under weak winds, but the shift saturates under strong winds. The direct wind forcing, on the other hand, plays an increasingly larger role in the wave breaking process in the presence of stronger wind. It was found that the strong following wind forcing enhances the initiation of wave breaking, while the strong opposing wind forcing may change breaking type or suppress wave breaking of large intensity, such as plunging breaking. Accordingly, the wave shape at breaking onset is altered considerably under strong winds. The following wind increases the maximum wave height and wave skewness slightly. However, the opposing wind may also increase the maximum wave height initially because of the wind drift current induced upwave refocusing of the wave group. Eventually, stronger opposing wind decreases the wave height and wave skewness.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes,Mechanics of Materials,Computational Mechanics,Mechanical Engineering

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