A unified breaking onset criterion for surface gravity water waves in arbitrary depth

M Derakhti, JT Kirby, ML Banner… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the validity and robustness of the Barthelemy et al.(2018, https://doi.
org/10.1017/jfm. 2018.93) wave‐breaking onset prediction framework for surface gravity …

Inertial energy dissipation in shallow-water breaking waves

W Mostert, L Deike - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
We present direct numerical simulations of breaking solitary waves in shallow water to
quantify the energy dissipation during the active breaking time. We find that this dissipation …

The influence of bandwidth on the energetics of intermediate to deep water laboratory breaking waves

R Cao, EM Padilla, AH Callaghan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
An experimental investigation of two-dimensional dispersively focused laboratory breaking
waves is presented. We describe the bandwidth effect on breaking wave energetics …

Deep water focused breaking wave loads on a fixed cylinder

MB Martin, JC Harris, JF Filipot, F Hulin, A Tassin… - Coastal …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents new results regarding numerical simulations of breaking wave impacts
on a surface-piercing cylinder. The computational fluid dynamics solver, code_saturne …

Flow kinematics and air entrainment under laboratory spilling breaking waves

B Na, KA Chang, HJ Lim - Journal of fluid mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Laboratory measurements of velocity fields and void fraction under spilling breaking waves
are presented. Modified particle image velocimetry was used to quantify the flow kinematics …

Wave breaking energy dissipation in long-crested focused wave groups based on JONSWAP spectra

CC Craciunescu, M Christou - Applied Ocean Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The present study is a new experimental investigation into energy dissipation due to wave
breaking. Long-crested wave groups based on JONSWAP spectra are generated in a wave …

[HTML][HTML] Wave breaking in undular bores generated by a moving weir

SD Hatland, H Kalisch - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
If a weir is dragged through a wave flume, the upstream flow takes the form of an undular
bore propagating ahead of the weir. It was found previously in the work of Wilkinson and …

An energetic signature for breaking inception in surface gravity waves

DG Boettger, SR Keating, ML Banner… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
A dynamical understanding of the physical process of surface gravity wave breaking
remains an unresolved problem in fluid dynamics. Conceptually, breaking can be described …

Laboratory studies of the role of bandwidth in surface transport and energy dissipation of deep-water breaking waves

JT Sinnis, L Grare, L Lenain, N Pizzo - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
This paper presents laboratory measurements of surface transport due to non-breaking and
breaking deep-water focusing surface wave packets and examines the dependence of the …

Directional soliton and breather beams

A Chabchoub, K Mozumi, N Hoffmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Solitons and breathers are nonlinear modes that exist in a wide range of physical systems.
They are fundamental solutions of a number of nonlinear wave evolution equations …