Imperial College London
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DrMariosChristou

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 6043marios.christou Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Rebecca Naessens +44 (0)20 7594 5990

 
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Location

 

334Skempton BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Craciunescu:2019:1/012039,
author = {Craciunescu, CC and Christou, M},
doi = {1/012039},
pages = {012039--012039},
publisher = {IOP Publishing},
title = {The effect of wave crest speed in breaking waves},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/586/1/012039},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>               <jats:p>The present work focuses on the evolution of the crest speed around large focal type water wave events. The phenomenon of crest slowdown around the point of maximum elevation is studied numerically using a boundary element model. The model is used to generate large design waves based on realistic ocean spectra. The evolution in terms of coupling between crest speed reduction and increase in particle velocities is studied up until initiation of wave breaking. It is shown that this coupling is a viable mechanism that leads to the formation of large deep water unidirectional breaking waves regardless of spectral shape and bandwidth.</jats:p>
AU  - Craciunescu,CC
AU  - Christou,M
DO  - 1/012039
EP  - 012039
PB  - IOP Publishing
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 1757-8981
SP  - 012039
TI  - The effect of wave crest speed in breaking waves
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/586/1/012039
ER  -
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