The velocity field under breaking waves: coherent structures and turbulence

DOI10.1017/S0022112001007078zbMath0987.76507OpenAlexW2063399701MaRDI QIDQ4330246

Fabrice Veron, Christopher J. White, W. K. Melville

Publication date: 2 July 2002

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112001007078

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Turbulence (76F99)

Related Items

Frequency spectra evolution of two-dimensional focusing wave groups in finite depth water, Introduction to the special issue on breaking waves, Short-crested wave breaking, Inertial scaling of dissipation in unsteady breaking waves, The time evolution of the maximal horizontal surface fluid velocity for an irrotational wave approaching breaking, Numerical simulation of sediment suspension and transport under plunging breaking waves, Modeling of Ocean-atmosphere interaction phenomena during the breaking of modulated wave trains, High-resolution direct simulation of deep water breaking waves: transition to turbulence, bubbles and droplets production, Direct numerical simulation of wind turbulence over breaking waves, On coherent vortical structures in wave breaking, Surfing surface gravity waves, Numerical investigation of mixed-phase turbulence induced by a plunging jet, Surface viscous stress over wind-driven waves with intermittent airflow separation, Numerical modelling of wind effects on breaking solitary waves, Crest speeds of unsteady surface water waves, Laboratory studies of the role of bandwidth in surface transport and energy dissipation of deep-water breaking waves, Evolution of the turbulence structure in the surf and swash zones, Growth and dissipation of wind-forced, deep-water waves, Turbulence and mixing in unsteady breaking surface waves, Energy dissipation in two-dimensional unsteady plunging breakers and an eddy viscosity model, Surface gravity wave effects in the oceanic boundary layer: large-eddy simulation with vortex force and stochastic breakers, Breaking of modulated wave groups: kinematics and energy dissipation processes, Numerical study of the effects of the breaking intensity on wave breaking flows, Role of the basin boundary conditions in gravity wave turbulence, Current generation by deep-water breaking waves, Models of energy loss from internal waves breaking in the ocean, A wave-breaking model for the depth-semi-averaged equations, Vortex generation by deep-water breaking waves