Experimental investigation of turbulence generated by breaking waves in water of intermediate depth
Experimental investigation of turbulence generated by breaking waves in water of intermediate depth
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中等深度水中破碎波产生湍流的实验研究
DOI:
10.1063/1.870198
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
P. Liu
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作者:
Kuang‐An Chang;P. Liu
This paper reports a set of laboratory data for breaking waves in the water of intermediate depth. A monochromatic wave train with a wave height of 14.5 cm and a wavelength of 121 cm was generated in a water depth, h, of 20 cm. The wave train breaks consistently at a distance of about 2h from the wave generator. The instantaneous velocity fields under the breaking waves on a two-dimensional vertical plane were measured by using the particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique. By repeating the same experiments twenty times and performing the ensemble average, mean velocity, mean vorticity, turbulence intensity, and other flow properties such as the Reynolds stress and the mean strain rate were calculated. Outside the aerated region, where the density of air bubbles is high, the experimental data show that the mean vorticity was of the same order of magnitude as (C/h) (≈6 s−1) with C being the phase speed. The maximum turbulence intensity outside the aerated region was in the order of magnitude of 0.1 C (≈11...