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    For a pure wave motion in fluid dynamics, the Stokes drift velocity is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it travels with the...
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  • Coriolis–Stokes force is a forcing of the mean flow in a rotating fluid due to interaction of the Coriolis effect and wave-induced Stokes drift. This force...
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  • 1847, the linear theory of Airy was extended by Stokes for non-linear wave motion – known as Stokes' wave theory – correct up to third order in the wave...
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  • Governor Stokes (disambiguation) Senator Stokes (disambiguation) Stokes (unit), a measure of viscosity Stokes boundary layer Stokes drift Stokes equation...
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  • coefficient; μ is the "mobility", or the ratio of the particle's terminal drift velocity to an applied force, μ = vd/F; kB is the Boltzmann constant; T...
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    circles. This is in contrast with the usual experimental observation of Stokes drift associated with the wave motion. Also the phase speed is independent...
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  • mean flow through wave–current interaction, specifically between the Stokes drift velocity and the mean-flow vorticity. The CL vortex force is used to...
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    less important factors which play a role in this are the Stokes drift, waves and the Stokes-Coriolis force. US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic...
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  • waves Sea state Seiche Significant wave height Soliton Stokes boundary layer Stokes drift Stokes wave Swell Trochoidal wave Tsunami megatsunami Undertow...
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  • derivative, streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines; or for determining the Stokes drift. The fluid parcels, as used in continuum mechanics, are to be distinguished...
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  • Square wave Standing wave Standing wave ratio Stefan–Boltzmann law Stokes drift Stokes wave Subharmonic Super low frequency Superharmonic Superposition...
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    displaced slightly from their previous positions, a phenomenon known as Stokes drift. As the depth below the free surface increases, the radius of the circular...
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    "drift currents"). These currents can decompose in one quasi-permanent current (which varies within the hourly scale) and one movement of Stokes drift...
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    interaction of the mean flow with wave averaged flows of the surface waves. Stokes drift velocity of the waves stretches and tilts the vorticity of the flow near...
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    Stokes – using a perturbation series approach, now known as the Stokes expansion – obtained approximate solutions for nonlinear wave motion. Stokes's...
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  • discharge amounts include reversing tidal flow, compensation flow for Stokes drift, spring-neap water storage effects, lateral circulation, and multiple...
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    Eames and McIntyre in 1999, Darwin drift (by the passage of a body through a fluid otherwise at rest) and Stokes drift (in the fluid motion associated with...
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  • Stokes drift Stokes expansion, see section about Stokes expansion Stokes flow Stokes number Stokes' paradox Stokes radius Stokes stream function Stokes wave...
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    waves Sea state Seiche Significant wave height Soliton Stokes boundary layer Stokes drift Stokes wave Swell Trochoidal wave Tsunami megatsunami Undertow...
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    parcel has been displaced substantially forward during the process – by Stokes drift in the wave propagation direction. And a net mass transport is the result...
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    currents, like the longshore current in the surf zone, rip currents and Stokes drift, affecting sediment transport and morphodynamics wave agitation in harbors...
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  • zone there is a near-bed onshore-directed sediment transport induced by Stokes drift and skewed-asymmetric wave transport. In the surf zone, strong undertow...
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  • kinetic energy to depths well below the depth scale for the surface waves (Stokes drift depth scale). Langmuir turbulence could have an important impact on our...
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    Effects of deepwater wave on movement of water particles (Stokes drift)....
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    waves Sea state Seiche Significant wave height Soliton Stokes boundary layer Stokes drift Stokes wave Swell Trochoidal wave Tsunami megatsunami Undertow...
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    waves Sea state Seiche Significant wave height Soliton Stokes boundary layer Stokes drift Stokes wave Swell Trochoidal wave Tsunami megatsunami Undertow...
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    Western Europe, which is heated at least in part by the north atlantic drift. Momentum Surface winds tend to be of order meters per second; ocean currents...
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    waves Sea state Seiche Significant wave height Soliton Stokes boundary layer Stokes drift Stokes wave Swell Trochoidal wave Tsunami megatsunami Undertow...
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  • The Stokes radius or Stokes–Einstein radius of a solute is the radius of a hard sphere that diffuses at the same rate as that solute. Named after George...
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    waves Sea state Seiche Significant wave height Soliton Stokes boundary layer Stokes drift Stokes wave Swell Trochoidal wave Tsunami megatsunami Undertow...
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