Time-dependent nonlinear gravity-capillary surface waves with viscous dissipation and wind forcing

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Hauptverfasser: Shelton, Josh, Milewski, Paul, Trinh, Philippe H.
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author Shelton, Josh
Milewski, Paul
Trinh, Philippe H.
author_facet Shelton, Josh
Milewski, Paul
Trinh, Philippe H.
contents We develop a time-dependent conformal method to study the effect of viscosity on steep surface waves. When the effect of surface tension is included, numerical solutions are found that contain highly oscillatory parasitic capillary ripples. These small amplitude ripples are associated with the high curvature at the crest of the underlying viscous-gravity wave, and display asymmetry about the wave crest. Previous inviscid studies of steep surface waves have calculated intricate bifurcation structures that appear for small surface tension. We show numerically that viscosity suppresses these. While the discrete solution branches still appear, they collapse to form a single smooth branch in limit of small surface tension. These solutions are shown to be temporally stable, both to small superharmonic perturbations in a linear stability analysis, and to some larger amplitude perturbations in different initial-value problems. Our work provides a convenient method for the numerical computation and analysis of water waves with viscosity, without evaluating the free-boundary problem for the full Navier-Stokes equations which becomes increasingly challenging at larger Reynolds numbers.
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spellingShingle Time-dependent nonlinear gravity-capillary surface waves with viscous dissipation and wind forcing
Shelton, Josh
Milewski, Paul
Trinh, Philippe H.
Fluid Dynamics
We develop a time-dependent conformal method to study the effect of viscosity on steep surface waves. When the effect of surface tension is included, numerical solutions are found that contain highly oscillatory parasitic capillary ripples. These small amplitude ripples are associated with the high curvature at the crest of the underlying viscous-gravity wave, and display asymmetry about the wave crest. Previous inviscid studies of steep surface waves have calculated intricate bifurcation structures that appear for small surface tension. We show numerically that viscosity suppresses these. While the discrete solution branches still appear, they collapse to form a single smooth branch in limit of small surface tension. These solutions are shown to be temporally stable, both to small superharmonic perturbations in a linear stability analysis, and to some larger amplitude perturbations in different initial-value problems. Our work provides a convenient method for the numerical computation and analysis of water waves with viscosity, without evaluating the free-boundary problem for the full Navier-Stokes equations which becomes increasingly challenging at larger Reynolds numbers.
title Time-dependent nonlinear gravity-capillary surface waves with viscous dissipation and wind forcing
topic Fluid Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06620