Instabilities of the undertow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 369, Issue , 1998, Pages 175-190

  Li, Li ^a   Dalrymple, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SURFACE WAVES; VORTEX FLOW;

UNDERTOW;

WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

EID: 0032138733     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022112098001694     Document Type: Article

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