Numerical investigation of spectral evolution of wind waves. Part II: Dissipation term and evolution tests

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 667-683

  Babanin, Alexander V ^a   Tsagareli, Kakha N ^b   Young, I R ^a   Walker, David J ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL WAVES; DISSIPATION FUNCTIONS; EXACT SOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; NONLINEAR TERMS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZED; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SIMULATED EVOLUTIONS; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; SOURCE FUNCTIONS; SOURCE TERMS; SPECTRAL EVOLUTION; SPECTRAL WAVE MODELS; SPECTRUM EVOLUTION; WAVE DISSIPATION; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE FORECAST; WAVE MOMENTUM FLUX; WAVE SPECTRA; WIND WAVE;

BIOLOGY; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; MODELS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

WAVES;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSIPATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD SURVEY; LAKE WATER; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND WAVE;

AUSTRALIA; LAKE GEORGE [NEW SOUTH WALES]; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 77953280196     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4370.1     Document Type: Article

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