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Main Authors: Maestrini, Davide, Noto, Daniele, Dematteis, Giovanni, Onorato, Miguel
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05462
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author Maestrini, Davide
Noto, Daniele
Dematteis, Giovanni
Onorato, Miguel
author_facet Maestrini, Davide
Noto, Daniele
Dematteis, Giovanni
Onorato, Miguel
contents The wave kinetic equation has become an important tool in different fields of physics. In particular, for surface gravity waves, it is the backbone of wave forecasting models. Its derivation is based on the Hamiltonian dynamics of surface gravity waves. Only at the end of the derivation are the non-conservative effects, such as forcing and dissipation, included as additional terms to the collision integral. In this paper, we present a first attempt to derive the wave kinetic equation when the dissipation/forcing is included in the deterministic dynamics. If, in the dynamical equations, the dissipation/forcing is one order of magnitude smaller than the nonlinear effect, then the classical wave action balance equation is obtained and the kinetic time scale corresponds to the dissipation/forcing time scale. However, if we assume that the nonlinearity and the dissipation/forcing act on the same dynamical time scale, we find that the dissipation/forcing dominates the dynamics and the resulting collision integral appears in a modified form, at a higher order.
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spellingShingle On the Wave Kinetic Equation in the presence of forcing and dissipation
Maestrini, Davide
Noto, Daniele
Dematteis, Giovanni
Onorato, Miguel
Chaotic Dynamics
The wave kinetic equation has become an important tool in different fields of physics. In particular, for surface gravity waves, it is the backbone of wave forecasting models. Its derivation is based on the Hamiltonian dynamics of surface gravity waves. Only at the end of the derivation are the non-conservative effects, such as forcing and dissipation, included as additional terms to the collision integral. In this paper, we present a first attempt to derive the wave kinetic equation when the dissipation/forcing is included in the deterministic dynamics. If, in the dynamical equations, the dissipation/forcing is one order of magnitude smaller than the nonlinear effect, then the classical wave action balance equation is obtained and the kinetic time scale corresponds to the dissipation/forcing time scale. However, if we assume that the nonlinearity and the dissipation/forcing act on the same dynamical time scale, we find that the dissipation/forcing dominates the dynamics and the resulting collision integral appears in a modified form, at a higher order.
title On the Wave Kinetic Equation in the presence of forcing and dissipation
topic Chaotic Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05462