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1 online resource (x, 336 pages) |
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HORIZONS IN WORLD PHYSICS. VOLUME 271; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; NUMERICAL MODELLING OF WIND WAV E S: PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS, VERIFICATIONS, AND APPLICATIONS ; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. FUNDAMENTAL EQUATIONS AND CONCEPTIONS ; 3. WAVE EVOLUTION MECHANISM DUE TO NONLINEARITY ; 3.1. General Grounds ; 3.2. The Most Effective Approximation for Nl Term ; 4. WIND WAVE ENERGY PUMPING MECHANISM ; 4.1. General Grounds ; 4.2. Effective Approximations for in Term; 4.3. Choice of the Wind Representation ; 4.4. The Dynamic Boundary Block Construction ; 5. WIND WAVE DISSIPATION MECHANISM |
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5.1. Overview of the Problem 5.2. Basic Statements ; 5.3. Reynolds Stress ; 5.4. Phenomenological Closure of Reynolds Stress ; 5.5. General Kind of the Wave Dissipation Term in a Spectral Form ; 5.6. Parameterization of the Dissipation Term and Its Properties; 5.6.1. Specification of function Dis(S, k, W) ; 5.6.2. Physical meaning of the dissipation term parameters and correspondence to the empirics ; 6. VERIFICATION OF NEW SOURCE FUNCTION ; 6.1. Main Regulations for Testing and Verification of Models ; 6.2. Specification of Numerical Simulations and Error Estimations |
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6.3. Results of Testing New Source Function 6.3.1. Straight fetch test ; 6.3.2. Swell decay test ; 6.3. Results of Comparative Validation of the Models WW and NEW ; 6.3.1. One-month simulations in the North Atlantic ; 6.3.2. Long-period simulations in the Western part of the North Atlantic ; 6.3.4. Point of the speed of calculation ; 6.3.5. Conclusion for verification ; 7. FUTURE APPLICATIONS ; 7.1. A Role of Wind Waves in Dynamics of Air-Sea Interface ; 7.1.1. Introductory words ; 7.1.2. The Role of wind wave evolution mechanisms |
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7.1.3. Energy and momentum balance at the air-sea interface 7.2. Examples for Estimation of Wave Impact on Parameters of the ABL and WUL ; 7.2.1. Wave state impact on the value of friction coefficient in the ABL; 7.2.2. Estimation of acoustic noise intensity dependence on the wind speed ; 7.2.3. Intermediate conclusion ; 7.3. Using wind wave Models for Studying Long-Term Mechanical Energy Exchange in the System: Wind-Wave-Upper Ocean ; 7.3.1. The Main tasks ; 7.3.2. Method of study ; REFERENCES ; AN OVERVIEW OF PLASMA CONFINEMENT IN TOROIDAL SYSTEMS ; ABSTRACT ; I. INTRODUCTION |
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I.1. Energy Crisis I.2. Nuclear Fission ; I.3. Nuclear Fusion ; I.4. Other Fusion Concepts ; II. PLASMA EQUILIBRIUM ; II. 1. Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) ; II. 2. Curvilinear System of Coordinates ; II. 2.1. Transformation of Coordinates ; II. 2.2. Metric Tensor ; II. 2.3. Volume and Surface Elements ; II. 2.4. Dot and Cross Product ; II. 2.5. Gradient, Divergence and Curl Operator ; II. 3. Flux Coordinates ; II. 3.1. Primitive Toroidal Coordinates ; II. 3.2. Flux Coordinates ; II. 3.3. Boozer Coordinates ; II. 3.4. Hamada Coordinates ; II. 4. Extensions to Axisymmetric Equilibrium |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Physics.
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Mathematical physics.
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Wind waves -- Mathematical models
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Physics
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physics.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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Mathematical physics
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Physics
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Wind waves -- Mathematical models
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Reimer, Albert.
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9781611222265 |
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1611222265 |
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