On the formation of the bulge in a spilling breaking water wave

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Authors: Zhongyuan Wang, Nadine Aubry, James H. Duncan 

Publication date: 10 August 1998

Published in: Journal of Hydrodynamics. Ser. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

free-surface elevationshock-like modespace-time measurementssudden increase in wave steepness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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• An experimental study of surfactant effects on spilling breakers
• Law of spreading of the crest of a breaking wave

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