Interaction of waves and currents /
by D. Howell Peregrine and Ivar G. Jonsson ; prepared for U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center.

Description

Main Author

Peregrine, D. H.

Related Names

Galvin, Cyril J. (Cyril Jerome), 1935-
Jonsson, Ivar G.
Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.)

Language(s)

English

Published

Fort Belvoir, Virginia : U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center, 1983.

Subjects

Physical and Dynamic Oceanography.
Water waves.
Sediment transport.
Ocean currents.
Civil engineering.
Refraction.
Focusing.
Turbulence.
Dissipation.
Bibliographies.
Interactions.
Ocean currents.
Ocean waves.
Sediment transport > Sediment transport / United States.
Ocean currents > Ocean currents / United States.
Water waves.
United States.

Summary

This report presents an overview of wave-current interacion, including comprehensive review of references to significant U.S. and foreign literature available through December 1981. Specific topics under review are the effects of horizontally and vertically varying currents on waves, wave refraction by currents, dissipation and turbulence, small- and medium-scale currents, caustics and focusing, and wave breaking. The results of the review are then examined for engineering applications. The most appropriate general-purpose computer program to include wave-current interaction is the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat program CREDIZ, which is based on a parabolic wave equation. Further applications include wave and current forces on structures and possibly sediment transport. The report concludes with a brief state-of-the-art review of wave-current interaction and a list of topics needing further research and development.

Note

"March 1983."
Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche.
"Cyril Galvin, Coastal Engineer"--Report documentation page.
Cover title.

Physical Description

88 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

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