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Birth of microbubbles in turbulent breaking waves

Wai Hong Ronald Chan*, Shahab Mirjalili†, Suhas S. Jain, Javier Urzay, Ali Mani, and Parviz Moin

  • Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA

  • *whrchan@stanford.edu
  • †ssmirjal@stanford.edu
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 100508 – Published 24 October, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.100508

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This paper is associated with a video winner of a 2018 APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The original video is available online at the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2018.GFM.V0027

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 100508– Published 24 October, 2019
  • Received 28 January 2019
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