NONLINEAR RESONANCE OF FREE-SURFACE WAVES IN A CURRENT OVER A SINUSOIDAL BOTTOM - A NUMERICAL STUDY

Citation
P. Sammarco et al., NONLINEAR RESONANCE OF FREE-SURFACE WAVES IN A CURRENT OVER A SINUSOIDAL BOTTOM - A NUMERICAL STUDY, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 279, 1994, pp. 377-405
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Mechanics,"Phsycs, Fluid & Plasmas
Journal title
ISSN journal
00221120
Volume
279
Year of publication
1994
Pages
377 - 405
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-1120(1994)279:<377:NROFWI>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
We examine the free surface flow over a fixed bed covered by rigid sin usoidal dunes. The mean current velocity is near the critical value at which the linearized theory predicts unbounded response. By allowing transients we examine the instability of the steady and nonlinear solu tion of Mei (1969) and the possibility of chaos when the current has a small oscillatory component.