The dominant instability of near-extreme Stokes waves

B Deconinck, SA Dyachenko… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The instability of Stokes waves, steady propagating waves on the surface of an ideal fluid of
infinite depth, is a fundamental problem in the field of nonlinear science. The dominant …

High-resolution direct simulation of deep water breaking waves: transition to turbulence, bubbles and droplets production

W Mostert, S Popinet, L Deike - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
We present high-resolution three-dimensional (3-D) direct numerical simulations of breaking
waves solving for the two-phase Navier–Stokes equations. We investigate the role of the …

On a unified breaking onset threshold for gravity waves in deep and intermediate depth water

X Barthelemy, ML Banner, WL Peirson… - Journal of Fluid …, 2018 - cambridge.org
We revisit the classical but as yet unresolved problem of predicting the breaking onset of 2D
and 3D irrotational gravity water waves. Based on a fully nonlinear 3D boundary element …

Observation of extreme sea waves in a space–time ensemble

A Benetazzo, F Barbariol… - Journal of Physical …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
In this paper, an observational space–time ensemble of sea surface elevations is
investigated in search of the highest waves of the sea state. Wave data were gathered by …

[HTML][HTML] Observations of surface wave–current interaction

L Romero, L Lenain… - Journal of Physical …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Observations of Surface Wave–Current Interaction in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
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WASS: An open-source pipeline for 3D stereo reconstruction of ocean waves

F Bergamasco, A Torsello, M Sclavo, F Barbariol… - Computers & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Stereo 3D reconstruction of ocean waves is gaining more and more popularity in the
oceanographic community and industry. Indeed, recent advances of both computer vision …

A unified breaking onset criterion for surface gravity water waves in arbitrary depth

M Derakhti, JT Kirby, ML Banner… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the validity and robustness of the Barthelemy et al.(2018, https://doi.
org/10.1017/jfm. 2018.93) wave‐breaking onset prediction framework for surface gravity …

Simulation of breaking waves using the high-order spectral method with laboratory experiments: Wave-breaking onset

BR Seiffert, G Ducrozet, F Bonnefoy - Ocean Modelling, 2017 - Elsevier
This study investigates a wave-breaking onset criteria to be implemented in the non-linear
potential flow solver HOS-NWT. The model is a computationally efficient, open source code …

[HTML][HTML] Turbulent flow over steep steady and unsteady waves under strong wind forcing

PP Sullivan, ML Banner, RP Morison… - Journal of Physical …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Turbulent Flow over Steep Steady and Unsteady Waves under Strong Wind Forcing in: Journal
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A data set of sea surface stereo images to resolve space-time wave fields

PV Guimarães, F Ardhuin, F Bergamasco, F Leckler… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
Stereo imaging of the sea surface elevation provides unique field data to investigate the
geometry and dynamics of oceanic waves. Typically, this technique allows retrieving the 4-D …