The effects of surfactants on spilling breaking waves

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6922, 2003, Pages 520-523

  Liu, Xinan ^a   Duncan, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); ENERGY TRANSFER; IMPURITIES; MASS TRANSFER; SURFACE TENSION; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND EFFECTS;

BREAKING WAVES;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

SURFACTANT;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BREAKING WAVE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RIPPLE; SURFACTANT; TURBULENT FLOW;

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; ENERGY; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE TENSION; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0037472865     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01357     Document Type: Article

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