Energy dissipation in two-dimensional unsteady plunging breakers and an eddy viscosity model

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 655, Issue , 2010, Pages 217-257

  Tian, Zhigang ^a   Perlin, Marc ^a   Choi, Wooyoung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISSIPATION; LIQUID WAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CHARACTERISTIC TIME; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; EDDY VISCOSITY MODEL; ENERGY DISSIPATION RATE; FREE-SURFACE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; HIGH SPEED IMAGING; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; STRONG DEPENDENCES;

VISCOSITY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BREAKING WAVE; EDDY; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; UNSTEADY FLOW; VISCOSITY; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE GROUP;

EID: 77957116046     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010000832     Document Type: Article

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