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W. Kendall Melville
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 81
Citations - 5045
W. Kendall Melville is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Breaking wave & Wind wave. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 81 publications receiving 4446 citations. Previous affiliations of W. Kendall Melville include Scripps Institution of Oceanography & University of California.
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Long Nonlinear Internal Waves
TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of the properties of steady internal solitary waves and the transient processes of wave generation and evolution, primarily from the point of view of weakly nonlinear theory, of which the Korteweg-de Vries equation is the most frequently used example.
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The velocity field under breaking waves: coherent structures and turbulence
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that the region of turbulent fluid directly generated by breaking is too large to be imaged in one video frame and so an ensemble-averaged representation of the flow is built up from a mosaic of image frames.
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Distribution of breaking waves at the ocean surface
TL;DR: Measurements of wave breaking are presented, using aerial imaging and analysis, and a statistical description of related sea-surface processes are provided to find that the distribution of the length of breaking fronts per unit area of sea surface is proportional to the cube of the wind speed, and that the fraction of the ocean surface mixed by breaks is dominated by wave breaking at low velocities and short wavelengths.
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Surface gravity wave effects in the oceanic boundary layer: large-eddy simulation with vortex force and stochastic breakers
TL;DR: In this article, the wind-driven stably stratified mid-latitude oceanic surface turbulent boundary layer is computationally simulated in the presence of a specified surface gravity-wave field.
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Energy Dissipation by Breaking Waves
TL;DR: In this paper, a wave-age-dependent scaling of the dissipation layer is proposed to estimate the enhanced dissipation rate and the thickness of the surface layer consistent with the field measurements.