On the existence of water turbulence induced by nonbreaking surface waves

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2675-2679

  Babanin, Alexander V ^a   Haus, Brian K ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP-WATER WAVES; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; ISOTROPIC TURBULENCE; KOLMOGOROV; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OCEAN MIXING; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; SURFACE WAVE AMPLITUDE; VELOCITY SPECTRUM; WAVE ENERGY DISSIPATION; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVEBREAKING;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY DISSIPATORS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WAVES; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER WAVES;

WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

AMPLITUDE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; SURFACE WAVE; TURBULENCE; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 67349197522     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JPO4202.1     Document Type: Article

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