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Title: Plunging breakers. Part 2. Droplet generation

An experimental study of the dynamics and droplet production in three mechanically generated plunging breaking waves is presented in this two-part paper. In the present paper (Part 2), in-line cinematic holography is used to measure the positions, diameters ($d\geq 100\ \mathrm {\mu }{\rm m}$), times and velocities of droplets generated by the three plunging breaking waves studied in Part 1 (Erininet al.,J. Fluid Mech., vol. 967, 2023, A35) as the droplets move up across a horizontal measurement plane located just above the wave crests. It is found that there are four major mechanisms for droplet production: closure of the indentation between the top surface of the plunging jet and the splash that it creates, the bursting of large bubbles that were entrapped under the plunging jet at impact, splashing and bubble bursting in the turbulent zone on the front face of the wave and the bursting of small bubbles that reach the water surface at the crest of the non-breaking wave following the breaker. The droplet diameter distributions for the entire droplet set for each breaker are fitted with power-law functions in separate small- and large-diameter regions. The droplet diameter where these power-law functions cross increases monotonically from 820 to 1480$\mathrm {\mu }{\rm m}$from the weak to the strong breaker, respectively. The droplet diameter and velocity characteristics and the number of the droplets generated by the four mechanisms are found to vary significantly and the processes that create these differences are discussed.

 
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Award ID(s):
1925060 1829943
PAR ID:
10483876
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Volume:
967
ISSN:
0022-1120
Page Range / eLocation ID:
A36
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Wave breaking, air/sea interactions
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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