Unsteady ripple generation on steep gravity-capillary waves

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 386, Issue , 1999, Pages 281-304

  Jiang, Lei ^a,b   Lin, Huan Jay ^a   Schultz, William W ^a   Perlin, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

GRAVITY CAPILLARY WAVES; INVISCID FLOW; RIPPLE GENERATION;

UNSTEADY FLOW;

EID: 0032687853     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112099004450     Document Type: Article

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