Experimental study of solitary wave evolution over a 3D shallow shelf

Proceedings of the Coastal Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lynett, Patrick ^a   Swigler, David ^a   Son, Sangyoung ^a   Bryant, Duncan ^a   Socolofsky, Scott ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D turbulence; Breaking; Experiment; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BREAKING; CENTERLINES; COHERENT STRUCTURE; CROSS-SHORE VELOCITIES; DEEPWATER REGIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLUID VELOCITIES; FREE SURFACE ELEVATIONS; KINEMATIC PROPERTIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MAXIMUM VELOCITY; SHALLOW WATER BATHYMETRY; SHALLOW-WATER; SHELF BREAK; SIDE WALLS; STEEP SLOPE; THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOW FIELD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE; TRIANGULAR SHAPES; TURBULENT ENERGIES; TURBULENT EVENTS; WATER MASS; WAVE EVOLUTION;

BATHYMETRY; COASTAL ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTS; SOLITONS; TSUNAMIS; VELOCITY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84864484250     PISSN: 01613782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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