Wave-current interaction based on an enhanced Boussinesq approach

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-39

  Chen, Qin ^a,c   Madsen, Per A ^a   Schäffer, Hemming A ^a   Basco, David R ^b  

^a DHI   (Denmark)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fully coupled wave current; New equations; Numerical simulation; Strong interaction; Wave blockage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032023178     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3839(97)00034-3     Document Type: Article

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