Numerical investigation of turbulence generation in non-breaking potential waves

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Babanin, Alexander V ^a   Chalikov, Dmitry ^a,b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EULER EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

3D EULER EQUATION; CRITICAL VALUE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FREE SURFACES; INTERMITTENCY; MAXIMUM VALUES; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; ORBITAL VELOCITIES; POTENTIAL MOTION; SHEAR CURRENTS; SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE GENERATION; VELOCITY GRADIENTS; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION; VORTEX MOTION; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVE CREST; WAVE STEEPNESS; WAVE TURBULENCE; WAVEBREAKING;

VELOCITY;

EQUATION; EULER FLOW; NUMERICAL METHOD; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THEORETICAL STUDY; TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VELOCITY PROFILE; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 84862285624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC007929     Document Type: Article

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