Breaking Condition of Shoaling Waves on Opposing Current
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- Published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
- Vol. 116 (2) , 302-306
- https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)0733-950x(1990)116:2(302)
Abstract
Small-scale tests were performed to examine the effect of opposing current on the breaking condition of regular waves shoaling on a uniform slope. A simple empirical formula is proposed for predicting the breaking condition of shoaling waves on opposing current.Keywords
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