THE EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF NUMERICAL MODELS OF PLUNGING BREAKERS

Soren Peter Kjeldsen

doi:10.9753/icce.v19.1

No. 19 (1984), Conference Proceedings

No. 19 (1984)

THE EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF NUMERICAL MODELS OF PLUNGING BREAKERS

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https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v19.1

Published 1984-01-29

Soren Peter Kjeldsen⁺⁻

Soren Peter Kjeldsen

NORWEGIAN HYDRODYNAMIC LABORATORIES

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breaking waves
plunging breaker
numerical model
experimental verification

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Kjeldsen, S. P. (1984). THE EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF NUMERICAL MODELS OF PLUNGING BREAKERS. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(19), 1. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v19.1

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Results of a WAVE-FOLLOWER EXPERIMENT are presented, in which a moving current meter entrained in the crest of a steep Stokes wave and a moving high-speed film camera follows the wave with its non-linear phase velocity. Measurements of wave particle velocities are then obtained both in non-breaking steep wave crests, and in breaking waves. The breaking waves in deep water conditions are obtained by the application of a non-linear sweep frequency modulation technique, and the Stokes wave becomes unstable due to interaction of 13 wave components focused into one single point in space and time, KJELDSEN 1982. The result of this interaction is a large freak wave, breaking as a plunging breaker in deep water. Measured crest particle velocities obtained with the current meter exceeded the phase velocity of this wave with 36 %. Digitalisation of the high-speed film showed that particle velocities at the very tip of the plunging jet obtained the value 2.65 times the linear phase velocity. These results are then compared with predictions obtained from numerical simulations by LONGUET-HIGGINS & COKELET 1976 and VINJE & BREVIG 1980.

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