Pressure induced by the interaction of water waves with nearly equal frequencies and nearly opposite directions

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摘要 Wepresentsecond-orderexpressionsforthefree-surfaceelevation,velocitypotentialandpressureresultingfromtheinteractionofsurfacewavesinwaterofarbitrarydepth.Whenthesurfacewaveshavenearlyequalfrequenciesandnearlyoppositedirections,asecond-orderpressurecanbefeltallthewaytotheseabottom.Thereareatleasttwoareasofapplications:reflectivestructuresandmicroseisms.Microseismsgeneratedbywaterwavesintheoceanaresmallvibrationsofthegroundresultingfrompressureoscillationsassociatedwiththecouplingofoceansurfacegravitywavesandtheseafloor.Theyarerecordedonland-basedseismicstationsthroughouttheworldandtheyaredividedintoprimaryandsecondarytypes,asafunctionofspectralcontent.Secondarymicroseismsaregeneratedbytheinteractionofsurfacewaveswithnearlyequalfrequenciesandnearlyoppositedirections.Theefficiencyofmicroseismgenerationthusdependsinpartonoceanwavefrequencyanddirection.Basedonthesecond-orderexpressionsforthedynamicpressure,asimpletheoreticalanalysisthatquantifiesthedegreeofnearnessinamplitude,frequency,andincidenceangle,whichmustbereachedtoobservethephenomenon,ispresented.
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出处 《力学快报:英文版》 2017年3期
出版日期 2017年03月13日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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