Interaction of Streamwise and Wall-Normal Velocities in Combined Wave-Current Motion

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2005-04-14
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Theaimofthispaperistopresentananalyticalexpressionforthestreamwisevelocitydistributioninanon-uniformflowinthepresenceofwaves;thecorrelationbetweenthehorizontalandverticalvelocitycomponentshasbeencomprehensivelyexamined.Differentfrompreviousresearcheswhichattributedthedeviationofvelocityfromtheclassicallog-lawtothewaveReynoldsstress,i.e.-ρ(uv)only,thisstudydemonstratesthatthemomentumfluxcausedbymeanvelocities,i.e.,(u)and(v),isalsoresponsibleforthevelocitydeviation,anditisfoundthatthestreamwisevelocityforaflowinthepresenceofnon-zerowall-normalvelocitydoesnotfollowtheclassicallog-law,butthemodifiedlog-lawproposedinthisstudybasedonsimplifiedmixing-lengththeorem.Thevalidityofthemodifiedlog-lawhasbeenverifiedbyuseofavailableexperimentaldatafrompublishedsourcesforcombinedwave-currentflows,andgoodagreementbetweenthepredictedandobservedvelocityprofileshasbeenachieved.