| Summary: | 博士 === 國立交通大學 === 土木工程系所 === 95 === An air-water coupled model is developed to investigate wind-wave generation processes at low wind speed where the surface wind stress is about and the associated surface friction velocities of the air and the water are and , respectively. The air-water coupled model satisfies continuity of velocity and stress at the interface simultaneously, and hence can capture the interaction between air and water motions. Our simulations show that the wavelength of the fastest growing waves agrees with laboratory measurements and the wave growth consists of linear and exponential growth stages as suggested by theoretical and experimental studies. Constrained by the linearization of the interfacial boundary conditions, we perform simulations only for a short time period, about 70s; the maximum wave slope of our simulated waves is and the associated wave age is , which is a slow moving wave. The effects of waves on turbulence statistics above and below the interface are examined. Sensitivity tests are carried out to investigate the effects of turbulence in the water, surface tension, and the numerical depth of the air domain. The growth rates of the simulated waves are compared to Phillips’ (1957) theory for linear growth and to Plant’s (1982) experimental data and previous simulation results for exponential growth. In the exponential growth stage, some of the simulated wave growth rates are comparable to previous studies, but some are about 2~3 times larger than previous studies. In the linear growth stage, the simulated wave growth rates are sensitive to the numerical depth of the air domain, and are comparable to Phillips’ prediction only for the larger air domain. In qualitative agreement with the theories proposed by Phillips (1957) and Belcher and Hunt (1993) for slow moving waves, the mechanisms for the energy transfer from wind to waves in our simulations are mainly from turbulence-induced pressure fluctuations in the linear growth stage and due to the in-phase relationship between wave slope and wave-induced pressure fluctuations in the exponential growth stage, respectively.
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