Abstract: A numerical study of the fully nonlinear instability of the ocean to Langmuir circulations is reported. The extended Craik-Leibovich theory is used to compute the development of a mixed layer in an ocean of infinite depth ...

Abstract: Finite-amplitude Langmuir circulation in the form of rolls parallel to the wind direction is shown to be subject to three-dimensional instability under certain circumstances. Density stratification is not required for ...

Abstract: Langmuir circulations reside in, and are responsible in part for the existence and maintenance of, the mixed layer. It is, therefore, typical for the water containing Langmuir circulations to be bounded below by a thermocline. ...

Abstract: Numerical simulations of the oceanic (atmospheric) boundary layer are complicated by the need to specify appropriate ?outflow? or ?radiation? boundary conditions at the artificial lower (upper) boundary of the computational ...