Imaging the Smale-Scale Entrainment Processes Occurring in Breaking Waves

9811149迪恩在这个项目中，PI将研究海洋破碎波中气泡的产生和演变，其长度尺度为毫米到厘米，时间尺度为毫秒。 一个光学成像仪器，成功的实验室仪器的基础上，将开发和部署在冲浪区，沿着与水下摄像机，压力传感器，和水听器。 在这样创建的图像中，空气-水边界显示为亮线，较大的气泡显示为亮环，较小的气泡显示为亮点。单个图像中的图案将给出气泡形成的静态视图，而连续图像之间的差异将给出这些过程的动态视图。

9811149DeaneIn this project, the PI will study the creation and evolution of bubbles inside oceanic breaking waves on length scales of the order of millimeters to centimeters, and on millisecond time scales. An optical imaging instrument, based on a successful laboratory instrument will be developed and deployed in the surf zone, along with an underwater video camera, a pressure sensor, and a hydrophone. In the images thus created, air-water boundaries appear as bright lines, larger bubbles appear as bright rings, and smaller bubbles appear as bright dots. Patterns in individual images will give a static view of bubble formation, while the differences between successive images will give a dynamical view of these processes.