Spatially evolving regular water wave under the action of steady wind forcing

Abstract

The spectra plotted in this work demonstrate suppression of random wind-generated waves by a deterministic long wavemaker-generated wave in a moderately sized wind-wave facility. Experiments performed for a wide range of experimental conditions show that the effect of a regular wave on the local wind-wave field excited by steady wind remains essential as long as the local dominant frequency of random wind waves remains below that of the regular waves.