Turbulence production by nonbreaking waves: Laboratory and numerical simulations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Savelyev, Ivan B ^a   Maxeiner, Eric ^a   Chalikov, Dmitry ^b,c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSE PROXIMITY; FULLY NONLINEAR; FUNCTION OF TIME; HIGH PRECISION; NEAR-SURFACE; NON-BREAKING WAVES; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT MOTION; TURBULENT VELOCITY; WATER SURFACE; WAVE MOTIONS; WAVE PHASE; WAVE STEEPNESS; WAVE TANK;

ENERGY TRANSFER;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; KINETIC ENERGY; LABORATORY METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE WAVE; TURBULENCE; WAVE POWER; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84862292665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC007928     Document Type: Article

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