Hubert Branger

TL;DR: Particle image velocimetry (PIV) measurements were performed in a wave tank under water waves propagating and breaking on a 1/15 sloping beach as mentioned in this paper, where the wave transformation occurred in the surf zone over a large domain covering several wavelengths from incipient breaking to swash zone beyond the shoreline.

TL;DR: Evidence is reported of the effect of dissipation on FPU cycles in a super wave tank, namely their shift in a determined order, and it is shown that ideal NLSE breather solutions can describe such dissipative nonlinear dynamics.

TL;DR: In this paper, velocity and vorticity distributions over short-gravity breaking waves have been measured in a wind-wave tank, and the instantaneous flow topology displays specific features of three-dimensional separation patterns.

TL;DR: In this paper, the evolution of the airflow instantaneous structure over an unsteady breaking wave propagating in a group is measured in detail using the digital particle image velocimetry technique.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the input of energy by wind to water waves with the observed growth of the waves using a suite of microphysical measurement techniques in the laboratory, including measured tangential stresses in the water and air immediately adjacent to the interface with corresponding form drag measurements above wind-forced freely propagating waves.