scholarly journals Boundary layer formulations in orthogonal curvilinear coordinates for flow over wind-generated surface waves

2020 ◽  
Vol 888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kianoosh Yousefi ◽  
Fabrice Veron
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Surface Waves ◽  
Curvilinear Coordinates ◽  
Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates ◽  
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XVI.—On Triple Systems of Surfaces and Non-Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates

1927 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 194-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Weatherburn
Keyword(s):  
Curvilinear Coordinates ◽  
Triple Systems ◽  
Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates ◽  
Orthogonal Systems ◽  
Considerable Detail

The properties of “triply orthogonal” systems of surfaces have been examined by various writers and in considerable detail; but those of triple systems generally have not hitherto received the same attention. It is the purpose of this paper to discuss non-orthogonal systems, and to investigate formulæ in terms of the “oblique” curvilinear coordinates u, v, w which such a system determines.

scholarly journals The appearance of boundary layers and drift flows due to high-frequency surface waves

2012 ◽  
Vol 707 ◽  
pp. 482-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ofer Manor ◽  
Leslie Y. Yeo ◽  
James R. Friend
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Surface Waves ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Slip Boundary Condition ◽  
Inertial Effects ◽  
Velocity Amplitude ◽  
Slip Boundary ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Bulk Waves ◽  
Schlichting Streaming

AbstractThe classical Schlichting boundary layer theory is extended to account for the excitation of generalized surface waves in the frequency and velocity amplitude range commonly used in microfluidic applications, including Rayleigh and Sezawa surface waves and Lamb, flexural and surface-skimming bulk waves. These waves possess longitudinal and transverse displacements of similar magnitude along the boundary, often spatiotemporally out of phase, giving rise to a periodic flow shown to consist of a superposition of classical Schlichting streaming and uniaxial flow that have no net influence on the flow over a long period of time. Correcting the velocity field for weak but significant inertial effects results in a non-vanishing steady component, a drift flow, itself sensitive to both the amplitude and phase (prograde or retrograde) of the surface acoustic wave propagating along the boundary. We validate the proposed theory with experimental observations of colloidal pattern assembly in microchannels filled with dilute particle suspensions to show the complexity of the boundary layer, and suggest an asymptotic slip boundary condition for bulk flow in microfluidic applications that are actuated by surface waves.

scholarly journals Heat transfer in the seabed boundary layer

2021 ◽  
Vol 928 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Michele ◽  
R. Stuhlmeier ◽  
A.G.L. Borthwick
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Free Surface ◽  
Surface Waves ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Perturbation Expansion ◽  
Phase Speed ◽  
Maximum Heat ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Free Surface Waves

We present a theoretical model of the temperature distribution in the boundary layer region close to the seabed. Using a perturbation expansion, multiple scales and similarity variables, we show how free-surface waves enhance heat transfer between seawater and a seabed with a solid, horizontal, smooth surface. Maximum heat exchange occurs at a fixed frequency depending on ocean depth, and does not increase monotonically with the length and phase speed of propagating free-surface waves. Close agreement is found between predictions by the analytical model and a finite-difference scheme. It is found that free-surface waves can substantially affect the spatial evolution of temperature in the seabed boundary layer. This suggests a need to extend existing models that neglect the effects of a wave field, especially in view of practical applications in engineering and oceanography.

Langmuir turbulence and filament frontogenesis in the oceanic surface boundary layer

2019 ◽  
Vol 879 ◽  
pp. 512-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter P. Sullivan ◽  
James C. McWilliams
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Layer ◽  
Surface Waves ◽  
Momentum Flux ◽  
Shear Instability ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Upper Ocean ◽  
Surface Boundary ◽  
Langmuir Turbulence ◽  
Filament Axis ◽  
Submesoscale Currents

Submesoscale currents, small-scale turbulence and surface gravity waves co-exist in the upper ocean and interact in complex ways. To expose the couplings, the frontogenetic life cycle of an idealized cold dense submesoscale filament interacting with upper ocean Langmuir turbulence is investigated in large-eddy simulations (LESs) based on the incompressible wave-averaged equations. The simulations utilize large domains and fine meshes with $6.4\times 10^{9}$ grid points. Case studies are made with surface winds or surface cooling with waves oriented in across-filament (perpendicular) or down-filament (parallel) directions relative to the two-dimensional filament axis. The currents $u$, $v$ and $w$ are aligned with the across-filament, down-filament and vertical directions, respectively. Frontogenesis is induced by across-filament Lagrangian secondary circulations in the boundary layer, and it is shown to be strongly impacted by surface waves, in particular the propagation direction relative to the filament axis. In a horizontally heterogeneous boundary layer, surface waves induce both mean and fluctuating Stokes-drift vortex forces that modify a linear, hydrostatic turbulent thermal wind (TTW) approximation for momentum. Down-filament winds and waves are found to be especially impactful, they significantly reduce the peak level of frontogenesis by fragmenting the filament into primary and secondary down-welling sites in a broad frontal zone over a width ${\sim}500~\text{m}$. At peak frontogenesis, opposing down-filament jets $\langle v\rangle$ overlie each other resulting in a vigorous vertical shear layer $\unicode[STIX]{x2202}_{z}\langle v\rangle$ with large vertical momentum flux $\langle v^{\prime }w^{\prime }\rangle$. Filament arrest is induced by a lateral shear instability that generates horizontal momentum flux $\langle u^{\prime }v^{\prime }\rangle$ at low wavenumbers. The turbulent vertical velocity patterns, indicative of coherent Langmuir cells, change markedly across the horizontal domain with both across-filament and down-filament winds under the action of submesoscale currents.

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