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Project Code [21/EPSRC/3733]
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Project title
Wave Breaking in Crossing Seas
Primary Funding Agency
Science Foundation Ireland
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
n/a
Lead Organisation
University College Dublin (UCD)
Project Abstract
The aim of the proposed project is to develop and implement new surface wave breaking criteria and corresponding energy dissipation parameterisations appropriate for highly directionally spread and crossing-sea conditions. Existing breakingcriteria and dissipation parameterisations are not valid in highly directionally spread conditions and become ill defined whentwo wave systems, typically a local wind-generated sea and a distant swell, cross. Based on recent work (M.L. McAllister etal. (2019) Laboratory recreation of the Draupner wave and the role of breaking in crossing seas. J. Fluid Mech. 860, 767-786), we hypothesise that breaking in crossing seas is less steepness limiting and less dissipative. We will investigate thishypothesis through a systematic large-scale experimental and numerical parameter study.
Research Hub
Climate related research
Research Theme
Achieving climate neutrality by 2050.
Initial Projected Completion Date
31/12/2023