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TP 76-12 



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WIND-GENERATED WAVES FOR LABORATORY STUDIES 



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Technical Paper 



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7. AUTHORfa; 



D. Lee Harris 



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Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center (CERRE-OC) 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



A31228 



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Department of the Army 



Coastal Engineering Research Center 



Kingman Building, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060 



REPORT DATE 



August 19 76 



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44 



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Air-sea interaction 

 Coastal engineering 

 Laboratory wave facilities 



Waves 



Wind-generated waves 

 Wind-wave flumes 



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Mechanically generated, regular waves are used in laboratory wave basins 

 and channels for testing engineering designs for the coastal zone. Wind- 

 generated waves in the laboratory display irregularity, suggestive of the 

 irregularity of the open sea. It has been suggested that the validity of 

 laboratory tests would be increased if the laboratory waves were generated by 

 wind. 



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