Inertial scaling of dissipation in unsteady breaking waves

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 611, Issue , 2008, Pages 307-332

  Drazen, David A ^a,b   Melville, W Kendall ^a   Lenain, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; FORECASTING; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE PACKETS;

ACCELERATION DUE TO GRAVITY; AIR SEA INTERACTIONS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; PLUNGING BREAKERS; PROPORTIONALITY FACTORS; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SURFACE WAVE FIELDS;

WATER WAVES;

BREAKING WAVE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MODELING; SURFACE WAVE; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 50949111505     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008002826     Document Type: Article

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