A proposal of new breaker height formula

Coastal Engineering Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-48

  Rattanapitikon, Winyu ^a   Vivattanasirisak, Thirapat ^a   Shibayama, Tomoya ^b  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breaker index; Breaking wave; Incipient wave breaking; Limiting wave steepness

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; COASTAL ENGINEERING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BREAKING WAVES;

WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

EID: 0037361060     PISSN: 21664250     EISSN: 17936292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0578563403000634     Document Type: Article

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