Wave evolution over submerged sills: Tests of a high-order Boussinesq model

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-96

  Gobbi, Maurício F ^a,b   Kirby, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Sistema Meteorologico do Parana   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Boussinesq model; Depth tank; Wave field

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER WAVES;

BOUSSINESQ MODEL; SUBMERGED SILLS; WAVE EVOLUTION;

COASTAL ENGINEERING;

SILL; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; SILL; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032879846     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3839(99)00015-0     Document Type: Article

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