Characterizing energy dissipation of shallow-water wave breaking in a storm surge
Hunter Boswell, Guirong Yan, Wouter Mostert
Abstract
While understanding breaking waves is crucial for the development of parameterizations used in modeling ocean and climate, the complete description of wave breaking is not well understood. We present direct numerical simulations of two-dimensional solitary waves that break on a uniform beach in shallow water, including storm surge represented by an inshore region.
Topics & Concepts
Storm surgeBreaking waveDissipationWaves and shallow waterSurgeStormGeologyWind waveMeteorologyWave modelEnvironmental scienceClimatologyOceanographyGeophysicsPhysicsWave propagationQuantum mechanicsThermodynamicsOcean Waves and Remote SensingTropical and Extratropical Cyclones ResearchCoastal and Marine Dynamics