Simulations of wind along flight trajectories in the ocean surface layer

Modeling of Spatial Wind-Wave Correlations

“…The uctuations are primarily reported in the streamwise u and the vertical w velocity, but results of Elder et al 6 have indicated that similar uctuations may also be present in the transverse direction (i.e., in the v component). The experiments referred to here primarily investigatedmomentum Presented as Paper 97-0638 at the AIAA 35th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, Jan. [6][7][8][9]1997; received Feb. 5,1997; revision received Jan. 30, 1998; accepted for publication Feb. 3,1998 transfer across the ocean-atmosphere interface, for modeling purposes, and focused on changes in Reynolds' stresses, mean velocity pro le, and transport of scalars such as temperature and humidity brought forward by the wind-wave interaction. The starting objective for our work, however,was the modeling of wind structure close to wave surfaces for use in evaluation of wind impact on sea-skimming missiles.…”

“…8 In these simulations, numerically realized turbulence is added to realizations of wave- induced uctuations to provide realistic wind velocity time series for use in simulations of missile ight at low altitudes over waves.…”