Sound Production and Air Entrainment by Breaking Waves: A Review of Recent Laboratory Experiments

Autor: M. R. Loewen, Eric Lamarre, W. K. Melville
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Breaking Waves ISBN: 9783642848490
Popis: We review a series of laboratory experiments on the sound production and air entrainment by breaking waves. The acoustic radiation and microwave backscatter from individual breaking events are found to correlate with the important kinematic and dynamic properties of the breaking waves. Air entrainment measurements show that the bubble plume characteristics evolve as simple functions of time. A large fraction (30% to 50%) of the surface wave energy dissipated is found to be expended in entraining air against buoyancy forces.
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