Inertial scaling of dissipation in unsteady breaking waves

DOI10.1017/S0022112008002826zbMath1151.76387OpenAlexW2084737471MaRDI QIDQ5302670

Luc Lenain, W. K. Melville, David A. Drazen

Publication date: 8 January 2009

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112008002826

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25)

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