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JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS
Volume 642, Issue -, Pages 395-420Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009991820
Keywords
surface gravity waves; wave breaking; wave-turbulence interactions
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- EPSRC
- Hull Environmental Research Institute
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We present experimental results on Simultaneous space-time measurements for the gravity wave turbulence in a large laboratory flume. We compare these results With predictions of the weak turbulence theory (WTT) based on random waves, as well as with predictions based on the coherent singular wave crests. We see that the both wavenumber and frequency spectra are not universal and dependent on the wave strength, with some evidence in favour of the WTT at larger wave intensities when the finite-flume effects are minimal. We present further theoretical analysis of the role or the random and coherent waves in the wave probability density Function (p.d.f.) and the structure functions (SFs). Analysing our experimental data we round that the random waves and the coherent structures/breaks coexist: the former show themselves in a quasi-Gaussian p.d.f. core and the low-order SFs and the latter in file p.d.f. tails and the high-order SFs. It appears that the x-space signal is more intermittent than the t-space signal, and the x-space SFs capture more singular coherent Structures than the t-space SFs do. We Outline an approach treating the interactions of these random and coherent components as a turbulence cycle characterized by the turbulence fluxes in both the wavenumber and the amplitude spaces.
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