Journal
OCEAN ENGINEERING
Volume 113, Issue -, Pages 215-223Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2015.12.048
Keywords
Nonlinearity; Detuning; Wave breaking; Breaking position; Spectra; Energy dissipation
Funding
- National Basic Research Program [2011CB013701]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51422901, 11172058, 51221961]
- Foundation for the Author of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China [201347]
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Using an energy focusing technique, several transient wave trains were generated in a two-dimensional wave flume to investigate their nonlinear evolution. By increasing the initial wave steepness (S-0), while all other parameters remained the same, non-breaking through breaking conditions were achieved. The experimental results demonstrated that the waves' initial steepness affected the focusing process significantly. As expected, the nonlinear effects on wave packets with a low initial steepness were very small. However, for cases with large initial steepness, nonlinearity increased causing the wave packet to focus and break prematurely, a detuning process. As a result of the detuning process more than one breaker may occur, and more importantly when this ensues, energy loss was altered. It is found that for S-0 < 0.274, only one breaker occurred, and the energy loss increased with increased initial steepness. For larger steepness, two breakers occurred and the total energy loss remained nearly constant (similar to 17%) as the initial steepness was increased. As the initial steepness was increased still further, a large plunging breaking was obtained with additional energy loss (4%). These results suggest that the detuning has a pronounced influence not only on the resulting wave field, but on the resulting energy loss. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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