Parametric solutions for breaking waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112082001967zbMATH Open0492.76024MaRDI QIDQ3955005FDOQ3955005

M. S. Longuet-Higgins

Publication date: 1982

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

zbMATH Keywords

time-dependentfree surfacebranch pointtwo dimensionalirrotationalcomplex velocity potentialoverturning gravity wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

Cites Work

• Self-similar, time-dependent flows with a free surface

Cited In (12)

• Deep-water plunging breakers: a comparison between potential theory and experiments
• Hydrodynamic models and confinement effects by horizontal boundaries
• Two-dimensional Navier–Stokes simulation of breaking waves
• Pressure induced breather overturning on deep water: exact solution
• A complex variable method for the floating-body boundary-value problem
• Modelling wind-induced changes to overturning wave shape
• 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
• A model of interfacial stress and spray generation by gas flowing over a deep, wavy pool
• Singularities in the complex physical plane for deep water waves
• Evolution of nonlinear perturbations for a fluid flow with a free boundary. Exact results
• Surfing surface gravity waves

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