Breaker-generated turbulence in and above a seagrass meadow

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-9

  Pujol, Dolors ^a   Nepf, Heidi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy losses; Seagrass meadow; Stem wake turbulence; TKE decay; Turbulent kinetic energy; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DRAG; KINETIC ENERGY; MEADOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEAGRASS; SHALLOW WATER; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; SURF ZONE; TURBULENCE; WAKE; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 84869214670     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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