The oceanic boundary layer driven by wave breaking with stochastic variability. Part 1. Direct numerical simulations

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 507, Issue , 2004, Pages 143-174

  Sullivan, Peter P ^a   McWilliams, James C ^b   Melville, W Kendall ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; BREAKWATERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; KINETIC ENERGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TURBULENCE; VISCOSITY; WATER WAVES;

CONSTANT CURRENT; TURBULENCE-RESOLVING SIMULATIONS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY (TKE);

OCEAN CURRENTS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STOCHASTIC METHOD;

EID: 2542572529     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112004008882     Document Type: Article

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