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Breaking waves on a dynamic Hele-Shaw beach
Bokhove, Onno and Horn van der, Bram and Meer van der, Devaraj and Zweers, Wout and Thornton, Anthony (2012) Breaking waves on a dynamic Hele-Shaw beach. [Report]
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| Abstract: | We report the formation of quasi-steady beaches and dunes via breaking waves in our tabletop ‘Hele-Shaw’ beach experiment. Breaking waves are generated by a wave maker, and zeolite particles act as sand. The tank is narrow, just over one-particle diameter wide, creating a quasi-2D set-up. Classical breaker types are observed on a time-scale of about a second. Beach formation under breakers occurs on a longer time-scale, and is a matter of minutes for a range of mono-chromatic wave frequencies. Alternating the wave maker motion between two frequencies generally leads to beach formation but occasionally to formation of a stable dune with water on either side. Finally, the Hele-Shaw configuration explored here experimentally lends itself to multi-scale modeling of beach dynamics. |
| Item Type: | Report |
| Faculty: | Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) |
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| Link to this item: | http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/79723 |
| Publisher URL: | http://www.math.utwente.nl/publications |
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