Infrared imagery of streak formation in a breaking wave

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Handler, Robert A ^a   Savelyev, Ivan ^b   Lindsey, Michael ^c  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHEAR FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

BREAKING PROCESS; COUNTER-ROTATING VORTICES; HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED; INFRARED IMAGERY; STREAKY STRUCTURE; SURFACE TURBULENCE; VERTICAL VORTICITY; WAVE-TURBULENCE INTERACTION;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 84871906977     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4769459     Document Type: Letter

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