Modeling wave-current bottom boundary layers beneath shoaling and breaking waves

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 189-201

  Zhang, Chi ^a   Zheng, Jinhai ^a   Wang, Yigang ^a   Demirbilek, Zeki ^b  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYER MODELS; BREAKING WAVES; DATA SETS; FIRST-ORDER; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GRADIENT TERMS; HORIZONTAL PRESSURE; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; MEAN FLOW; MEAN VELOCITY PROFILES; MEAN WATER LEVELS; MODEL RESULTS; MODELING APPROACH; MOMENTUM EQUATION; MOMENTUM FLUX; MORPHOLOGY EVOLUTION; NEARSHORES; SHOALING WAVES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TURBULENCE CLOSURES; VELOCITY PROFILES; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVE-INDUCED CURRENTS; WAVEFIELDS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; WATER LEVELS; WATER WAVES; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

SHEAR FLOW;

BENTHIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BREAKING WAVE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; SHOALING WAVE; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER LEVEL; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION;

EID: 79956017110     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-010-0224-9     Document Type: Article

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