Deep-water plunging breakers: a comparison between potential theory and experiments

DOI10.1017/S0022112088001089zbMath0642.76020OpenAlexW2162759326MaRDI QIDQ3783684

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Publication date: 1988

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112088001089

zbMATH Keywords

potential-flow theorypiston-type wavemakerhigh-resolution computationssteep gravity wavesfree- surface elevationsmixed Eulerian-Lagrangian solutionwater-particle velocities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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