Wave-current interaction in an oceanic circulation model with a vortex-force formalism: Application to the surf zone

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 16-35

  Uchiyama, Yusuke ^a   McWilliams, James C ^a   Shchepetkin, Alexander F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Littoral current; ROMS; Vortex force; Wave current interaction

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; ASYMPTOTIC THEORIES; BREAKING POINT; COUPLED MODELS; COUPLED SYSTEMS; CURRENT EQUATION; EULERIAN; FIELD MEASUREMENT; LITTORAL CURRENT; LITTORAL CURRENTS; MODEL RESULTS; NEAR-SURFACE; NEARSHORES; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; PARAMETER CHOICE; PRESSURE FORCE; RADIATION STRESS; REGIONAL OCEANIC MODELING SYSTEMS; SURF ZONES; SURFACE FLOW; SURFACE GRAVITY WAVES; SURFACE ROLLER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); VERTICAL COMPONENT; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL PROFILE; VERTICAL SHEAR; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; VORTEX FORCE; WAVE CURRENT INTERACTION; WAVE MODELS; WAVEBREAKING;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COASTAL ENGINEERING; DRAG; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; WAVE EFFECTS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DRAG; GRAVITY WAVE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SHORELINE; SURF ZONE; SURFACE WAVE; UNDERTOW; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL PROFILE; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

EID: 77953286083     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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