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Measurements of Wind Velocity Fluctuations over Waves in a Wind-Wave Tunnel

Publication year Port and Airport Research Institute Report 008-01-01 1969.03
Author(s) Hajime KATO,Kikuo SANO
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Hydraulic Engineering Division Storm Surge and Tunami Laboratory
Executive Summary

 This paper is concerned with the wind velocity fluctuations measured both over the long periodic waves (superposed by much smaller wind waves) and over the wind waves only, in a wind-wave tunnel by using a linearized hot-wire anemometer. practically the spectra of those fluctuations and the cross-spectra between wind and waves were obtained by means of digital procedures.
 Wind velocity spectra obtained show a range of frequencies where the spectral density varies nearly as f-5/3 (f: frequency), and this range is extended to much lower frequencies than expected from Kolmogoroff's theory. Over the wind waves only, the wave-induced velocity fluctuations were found to have a considerable intensity at the lowest height, decrease fairly repidly with height and become almost negligible at the height of 15 cm. Over the said long waves the wave-induced fluctuations were only moderately with height and remained at the height of 40 cm as a dominant component of the spectrum. The wave-induced fluctuations were found to be nearly in phase with the dominant waves.

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