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In this paper* I hope to show that when sea waves interact or scatter off each other they act like a machine. I use the word machine in a broad sense, to mean a system which creates order somewhere at the expense of disorder elsewhere. Thus a machine may create a car at the expense of producing waste heat and pollution elsewhere. In the case of sea waves, an enhanced peak of the spectrum is produced at the expense of creating disorder amongst the very short waves.
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Webb, D.J. (1978). The Wave-Wave Interaction Machine. In: Favre, A., Hasselmann, K. (eds) Turbulent Fluxes Through the Sea Surface, Wave Dynamics, and Prediction. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9806-9_22
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