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A Numerical Study of Sheet Flow Under Monochromatic Nonbreaking Waves Using a Free Surface Resolving Eulerian Two-Phase Flow Model
- Award ID(s):
- 1635151
- PAR ID:
- 10063145
- Publisher / Repository:
- DOI PREFIX: 10.1029
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
- Volume:
- 123
- Issue:
- 7
- ISSN:
- 2169-9275
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 4693-4719
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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