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Articles | Volume 20, issue 6
Articles | Volume 20, issue 6
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18 Nov 2024
Research article |  | 18 Nov 2024

Turbulent features of nearshore wave–current flow

Massimiliano Marino, Carla Faraci, Bjarne Jensen, and Rosaria Ester Musumeci

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Understanding how waves and currents interact helps us comprehend physical processes occurring in a coastal environment. In the present work, waves and currents were reproduced in the laboratory and flow velocities were measured. Results showed that the superposition of waves induces a cyclic enhancement or suppression of near-bed turbulence, and, depending on current velocity, wave orbital velocity, and bed roughness, waves can alter the current velocity, following highly nonlinear patterns.
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