Provisional programme for the 3-day Conference onWind-over-Waves: Fundamentals, Forecasting and ApplicationsOrganised by S.E. Belcher, T.J. Bridges, J.C.R. Hunt & S.G. Sajjadi |
Monday 3rd September
Morning Session | Session Chair: J.C.R. Hunt |
9:00 | Registration and Coffee | Churchill College |
9:50 | J.C.R. Hunt (UCL) | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
10:00 | W.K. Melville (UC San Diego) | The initial generation of wind waves, currents and Langmuir circulations |
11:00 | M.E. McIntyre (Cambridge) | Wind-generated water waves: two overlooked mechanisms ? |
11:20 | P.K. Taylor (Southampton) (joint with M.J. Yelland) |
On the accuracy of open ocean wind stress determination |
11:40 | P.A. Hwang (JC Stennis Space Center) | Do wind-generated waves propagate primarily in the wind direction ? |
Afternoon Session 1 | Session Chair: W.K. Melville |
14:00 | J. Battjes (Delft) | Long waves induced on a beach by short wave groups |
15:00 | T. Hara (Rhode Island) (joint with S.E. Belcher) |
Wind forcing in the equilibrium range of wind-wave spectra |
15:20 | J. Papadimitrakis (joint with A.I. Papaioannou) |
Sea surface roughness parameterization |
15:40 | TEA |
Afternoon Session 2 | Session Chair: V. Makin |
16:00 | M. Banner (UNSW) | Recent advances in understanding wave breaking in deep water |
17:00 | D. Chalikov (NOAA) | Two-dimensional coupled model of surface waves and wave boundary layer |
Tuesday 4th September
Morning Session 1 | Session Chair: T.J. Bridges |
9:00am | M.S. Longuet-Higgins (UC San Diego) | Standing waves in the ocean |
10:00 | S. Annenkov (Shirshov) (joint with V. Shrira) |
Direct numerical simulation of random water wave dynamics |
10:20 | J.C.R. Hunt (UCL) (joint with S.E. Belcher) |
Unsteady, turbulent and vortical effects in wind-driven waves. Part 1 - air side |
10:40 | COFFEE |
Morning Session 2 | Session Chair: M.E. McIntyre |
11:00 | M.S. Longuet-Higgins (UC San Diego) | Asymptotic form for jets from standing waves |
11:20 | A.-S. Smedman (joint with U. Hogstrom) |
Some observational results from the air-sea interaction site Ostergarnsholm in the Baltic Sea |
11:40 | W.R.C. Phillips (Illinois) | Langmuir circulations beneath growing surface waves in a stratified fluid |
Afternoon Session 1 | Solitary waves | Session Chair: M.S. Longuet-Higgins |
14:00 | T.J. Bridges (Surrey) |
The stability of solitary waves: geometry, numerics, and three-dimensionality |
15:00 | T. Akylas (MIT) (joint with D.C. Calvo) |
Gravity-capillary solitary waves in deep water and their stability |
15:20 | TEA |
Afternoon Session 2 | Session Chair: J. Battjes |
15:40 | D. Chalikov (NOAA) | Three-dimensional coupled model of surface waves and wave boundary layer |
16:00 | G. Caulliez (Marseille) (joint with G. Collard) |
Coupled evolution of wind waves and wind stress at the early wave development |
16:20 | J.C.R. Hunt (UCL) (joint with S.E. Belcher, I. Eames, D.D. Stretch) |
Unsteady, turbulent and vortical effects in wind-driven waves. Part 2 - water side |
16:40 | T.M. Elfouhaily (IRPHE Marseille) (joint with B. Chapron, G. Chen, D. Thompson, D. Vandemark) |
Three-dimensional modulation of turbulent shear stress over oblique moving waves |
Conference Dinner in honour of Julian Hunt's 60th Birthday |
19:30 | Churchill College Dining Hall |
Wednesday 5th September
Morning Session 1 | Session Chair: G. Caulliez |
9:00 | V. Makin (KNMI) | Wind-over-waves coupling theory - A revision |
10:00 | S.I. Badulin (Shirshov) (joint with V.I. Shrira & A.G. Voronovich) |
Search for deterministic dynamics in experimental wind wave data |
10:20 | J.J. Green (Sheffield) (joint with L.R. Wyatt) |
The remote sensing of ocean waves with HF radar |
10:40 | COFFEE |
Morning Session 2 | Session Chair: S.E. Belcher |
11:00 | D. Chalikov (NOAA) (joint with D. Sheinin) |
Precise modelling of two-dimension potential waves |
11:20 | A.A. Grachev (joint with C.W. Fairall, J.E. Hare, J.B. Edson, J.W. Bao) |
Direction of wind stress vector over waves |
11:40 | S.G. Sajjadi (JC Stennis Space Center) (presented by M.S. Longuet-Higgins) |
Vorticity generated by parasitic capillary waves |
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