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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Mar. Sci.
Sec. Physical Oceanography
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1445116
This article is part of the Research Topic Wave-Induced Particle Motions in the Ocean View all 10 articles

Stokes drift and particle trajectories induced by surface waves atop a shear flow

Provisionally accepted
Yan Li Yan Li 1*Zibo Zheng Zibo Zheng 2Henrik Kalisch Henrik Kalisch 1
  • 1 University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
  • 2 New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, United States

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    Surface waves and currents are crucial to the mass transfer in the air-sea interaction as they can drive a variety of dynamical processes. How mass can be transported by surface waves and current coupling is addressed through a study of their induced motions of fluid parcels. To this end, a weakly nonlinear wavetrain is imposed on the background flow whose direction and magnitude are permitted to vary with water depth and second-order features of this configuration are investigated. A leading-order approximation to the Stokes drift is derived, correct to the

    Keywords: keyword, Stokes drift, Surface waves (fluid), Shear current, ocean modelling, Wave-Current Interaction (WCI), Wave forcing in the upper ocean, Particle trajectories

    Received: 06 Jun 2024; Accepted: 12 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Li, Zheng and Kalisch. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Yan Li, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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