The description of breaking waves and the underlying water particle kinematics

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 291-299

  Christou, Marios ^a   Swan, Chris ^a   Gudmestad, Ove T ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKING WAVES; PARTICLE KINEMATICS; SURFACE ELEVATION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; SOLITONS;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 37149003348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2007-29286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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