On the Growth of the Spectrum of Wind-Generated Waves
On the Growth of the Spectrum of Wind-Generated Waves
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DOI:
10.1080/05785634.1970.11924105
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发表时间:
1970-12
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
H. Mitsuyasu
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作者:
H. Mitsuyasu
ABSTRACTThis paper presents some recent experimental results concerning properties of fetch-limited wind waves, which have been measured in a laboratory tank and in a bay. The fetch relations which are very close to Wilson's formulas IV (Wilson (1965)), are determined both from the wind and wave data and from the proposed spectrum. The high frequency part of the measured spectra are approximately consistent with Phillips formula, except that the constant “β” is not a universal constant. It is shown that the value of β decreases with the increase of a dimensionless fetch, as has been pointed out theoretically by Longuet-Higgins (1969). The low frequency part of the spectral data is analyzed using the similarity theory of Kitaigorodskii (1962), and the form of the low frequency part of the spectrum is determined. Patching together the results for high and low frequencies, a form is proposed for one-dimensional spectrum of wind-generated waves at limited fetch, which is useful for practical forcasting.