Air-entrainment mechanisms in plunging jets and breaking waves

KT Kiger, JH Duncan - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Air entrainment in liquids is a complex phenomenon that has important applications in
industry and the environment. This article addresses recent research on how air is entrained …

Breaking waves: Review of characteristic relationships

B Robertson, K Hall, R Zytner, I Nistor - Coastal Engineering …, 2013 - World Scientific
The analysis of the water wave breaking phenomenon has been on-going for almost 150
years, and many research papers have been published approximating both the local …

Parameterization of nearshore wave front slope

C Zhang, Q Zhang, J Zheng, Z Demirbilek - Coastal Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
This study presents an empirical parameterization of wave front slope angle used in the
characterization of shoaling and breaking waves in nearshore environment. A large amount …

The wavedrifter: a low-cost IMU-based Lagrangian drifter to observe steepening and overturning of surface gravity waves and the transition to turbulence

F Feddersen, A Amador, K Pick, A Vizuet… - Coastal Engineering …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Waves and wave breaking are important to many deep and shallow water processes. We
describe the wavedrifter, an in situ water-following inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based …

Characteristics of monochromatic waves breaking over fringing reefs

Y Yao, Z Huang, SG Monismith… - Journal of Coastal …, 2013 - meridian.allenpress.com
ABSTRACT Yao, Y.; Huang, ZH; Monismith, SG, and Lo, EYM, 2013. Characteristics of
monochromatic waves breaking over fringing reefs. A fringing reef is a reef that is directly …

Influence of reef geometry on wave attenuation on a Brazilian coral reef

MBSF Costa, M Araújo, TCM Araújo, E Siegle - Geomorphology, 2016 - Elsevier
This study presents data from field experiments that focus on the influence of coral reef
geometry on wave transformation in the Metropolitan Area of Recife (MAR) on the northeast …

A numerical study of aeration characteristics of a plunging solitary wave on a slope

L Tang, P Lin - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, the characteristics of aerated flow under a plunging solitary wave on a 1: 20
slo** beach are investigated numerically. The numerical model solves the Reynolds …

Application of LiDAR technology for measurement of time-varying free-surface profiles in a laboratory wave flume

CE Blenkinsopp, IL Turner, MJ Allis, WL Peirson… - Coastal …, 2012 - Elsevier
An experimental study was completed to investigate the ability of a fixed, two-dimensional
LiDAR instrument to obtain detailed measurements of propagating waves within a laboratory …

Cross-shore wind-induced changes to field-scale overturning wave shape

F Feddersen, AM Fincham, KL Brodie… - Journal of Fluid …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The shape of depth-limited breaking-wave overturns is important for turbulence injection,
bubble entrainment and sediment suspension. Overturning wave shape depends on a …

[PDF][PDF] A roadmap for coordinated landscape-scale coastal and marine ecosystem restoration

MI Saunders, NJ Waltham, T Cannard… - Cairns …, 2022 - nespmarinecoastal.edu.au
The findings of the report, which are synthesised in Chapter 9 as a Roadmap, are intended
to form the basis of a conversation around transformational change in the implementation of …