Transition to turbulence at the bottom of a solitary wave

DOI10.1017/jfm.2012.341zbMath1275.76122OpenAlexW2108340093MaRDI QIDQ2863369

Paolo Blondeaux, Jan O. Pralits, Giovanna Vittori

Publication date: 21 November 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/feab0d3288a1b37383e57347d36d0cfd1273a641

zbMATH Keywords

solitary wavesboundary layer stabilitycoastal engineering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects (76D10) Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Waves for incompressible viscous fluids (76D33) Transition to turbulence (76F06)

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