Turbulence and energy dissipations of surf-zone spilling breakers

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 733-746

  Huang, Zhi Cheng ^a   Hsiao, Shih Chun ^a   Hwung, Hwung Hweng ^a   Chang, Kuang An ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy dissipation; PIV; Surf zone; Turbulent dissipation; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

BREAKING WAVES; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; ENERGY BUDGETS; ENERGY FLUXES; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; FIELDS OF VIEWS; INNER SURF ZONES; INSTANTANEOUS MEASUREMENTS; LABORATORY STUDIES; LARGE REGIONS; MEAN FLOWS; NEW RESULTS; PARTICLE-IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PIV; SPILLING BREAKERS; SURF ZONE; TOTAL ENERGIES; TURBULENCE DISSIPATION RATES; TURBULENT DISSIPATION; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGIES; VELOCITY FIELDS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE ENERGY DISSIPATIONS;

DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY DISSIPATORS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; KINETIC ENERGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

TURBULENCE;

ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW FIELD; KINETIC ENERGY; SURF ZONE; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 64749091889     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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