An experimental study of deep water plunging breakers

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2365-2374

  Perlin, Marc ^a   He, Jianhui ^a   Bernal, Luis P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OFFSHORE PLATFORMS; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 0030479122     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869021     Document Type: Article

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