Topics in longshore currents

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. === The momentum equation governing mean longshore currents on straight beaches is a balance of forcing from the momentum transfer of the oscillatory wave motion, turbulent momentum transfer (mixing), and bottom stress. Of these, the wave'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Church, John Casey.
Other Authors: Thornton, Edward B.
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/39927