Bar‐generating cross‐shore flow mechanisms on a beach
- 15 April 1989
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
- Vol. 94 (C4) , 4785-4800
- https://doi.org/10.1029/jc094ic04p04785
Abstract
Random waves normally incident on a dissipative beach induce a variety of cross‐shore flows, such as asymmetric oscillatory flow, wave grouping‐induced long‐wave flow, breaking‐induced turbulent flow, and momentum decay‐induced undertow. These flows are identified, analyzed and hindcasted in a set of laboratory experiments with the aim of revealing the role of each of the flow mechanisms in the two‐dimensional case of bar generation on a beach.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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