Violent breaking wave impacts. Part 1: Results from large-scale regular wave tests on vertical and sloping walls

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 602-617

  Bullock, G N ^a   Obhrai, C ^a   Peregrine, D H ^b   Bredmose, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air entrainment; Breaking waves; Breakwaters; Impact pressures; Impulses; Large scale experiments

Indexed keywords

AIR ENTRAINMENT; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BREAKWATERS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; WATER AERATION; WATER LEVELS;

BREAKING WAVES; IMPACT PRESSURES; IRREGULAR WAVES; LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTS;

WATER WAVES;

AIR ENTRAINMENT; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BREAKWATERS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; WATER AERATION; WATER LEVELS; WATER WAVES;

BREAKING WAVE; BREAKWATER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMPACT; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 34547416717     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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