Laboratory measurements of the generation and evolution of Langmuir circulations

DOI10.1017/S0022112098001098zbMath0948.76511OpenAlexW2019548775MaRDI QIDQ4220068

W. K. Melville, Fabrice Veron, Robert Shear

Publication date: 26 November 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112098001098

zbMATH Keywords

molecular transportwind-driven surface shear layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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