Localized mixing due to an interfacial solitary wave breaking on seabed topography in different ridge heights

Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 245-250

  Chen, Chen Yuan ^a   Chen, Cheng Wu ^b   Tseng, I Fan ^c  

^a YUNG TA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND COMMERCE   (Taiwan)

^b SHU TE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Energy loss; Internal solitary wave; Laboratory experiments; Profile change; Wave dispersion

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE WAVES; TOPOGRAPHY;

INTERNAL SOLITARY WAVE (ISW); WAVE BREAKING; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE MOTIONS;

WATER WAVES;

GRAVITY WAVES; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE WAVES; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER WAVES;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAVITY WAVE; LABORATORY METHOD; SEAFLOOR; SOLITARY WAVE; SUBMARINE RIDGE; TESTING METHOD; WAVE DISPERSION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 34548361730     PISSN: 08927219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2426991     Document Type: Article

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