Waves transport energy, but not mass
Usually we see wave crests propagating, and since the eye can’t stop following them, it is easy to assume that they transport water with them instead of leaving the water…
Tag: Stokes drift
Stokes drift
When a higher-order effect suddenly becomes important. During our excursion to Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA), one of the experiments we ran was on Stokes drift. You can already see in that post’s…
Langmuir circulation, take 2
Attempt at mechanistic understanding of Langmuir circulation. After complaining about how I didn’t have mechanistic understanding of Langmuir circulation recently, and how I was too lazy to do a real literature…