WATER WAVES<br> Theory and Experiment

WATER WAVES
Theory and Experiment
Proceedings of the Conference

Howard University, USA, 13 - 18 May 2008

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
GRAVITY INDUCED DISPERSION FOR NEARLY FLAT VORTEX SHEETS DANIEL SPIRN and J. DOUGLAS WRIGHT	1
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF LOW-FREQUENCY WAVES GENERATED BY RANDOM GRAVITY WAVES IN SHOALING WATER X. LIU, Y. YANG and P. HUANG	7
STATISTICAL THEORIES AND DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS Nathaniel Whitaker	29
WAVE MODULATED TURBULENT FIELDS AT THE OCEAN SURFACE AND RELATED AIR-SEA FLUXES F. VERON, W. K. MELVILLE and L. LENAIN	49
APPROXIMATE PERIODIC SOLUTIONS for the RAPIDLY ROTATING SHALLOW-WATER and RELATED EQUATIONS BIN CHENG and EITAN TADMOR	69
PRACTICAL WIND WAVE MODELING H. L. Tolman	79
NONEXISTENCE OF CONTINUOUS SOLUTIONS FOR A SEMILINEAR WAVE EQUATION WITH SMOOTH DATA Alfonso Castro	93
EXACT THEORY OF EXISTENCE AND STABILITY FOR TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOLITARY WAVES SHU-MING SUN	101
TSUNAMI PROPAGATION, DIRECTIVITY, AND PULSE PERSISTENCE FROM A FINITE SOURCE GEORGE F. CARRIER and HARRY YEH	120
COMPUTING THE LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES OF A KINEMATIC MEANDERING JET Amal A. El Moghraby	140
MATHEMATICAL METHODS FOR COUPLED NONLINEAR PDE'S SEAN BROOKS and M. F. MAHMOOD	159
OBLIQUE INTERACTION OF SOLITARY WAVES MIN CHEN	169
A SIMPLE PROOF OF A PRIORI ESTIMATES FOR WATER-WAVES Daniel Coutand and Steve Shkoller	181
DEMONSTRATION EXPERIMENTS IN THE NSF-CBMS REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON WATER WAVES D. HENDERSON, R. GEIST, K. Hammack and H. Segur	191
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