The phase -resolved tool along with our visco-elastic model has made a strong tool for the study of the linear damping and nonlinear interaction of waves over muddy shallow water.

Water waves interact with muddy bottoms in a variety of ways listed below. We will refer to these interactions by letter: A. Direct wave interactions: the fluid mud motion is directly forced by the particle orbital velocity and pressure gradient of the surface waves.

Mar 1, 2009 · When water surface waves travel over consolidated mud layers, the upper part of muddy beds may be fluidized due to wave action. The determination of the thickness of fluidized mud layer is essential for the simulations of wave height transformation and mud mass transport.

Jan 1, 2011 · These mechanisms are being examined via field measurements in the Gulf of Mexico, laboratory experiments of waves over a mud bottom, and numerical and theoretical analyses.

Oct 1, 2013 · Wave-mud interaction is investigated herein by using a previously validated nonlinear spectral wave model and observations of waves and near-bed conditions on a mildly-sloping seafloor off the muddy central chenier-plain coast, western Louisiana Shelf, United States.

Apr 9, 2008 · Laboratory studies show that waves can lose 90% of their height after propagating just a few wavelengths over a viscous mud. Remotely-sensed water wave attenuation and diffractive changes in wave direction due to bottom dissipation can provide information about the presence of areas of bottom mud.

Nov 1, 2015 · Surprisingly, deep water waves in the ocean propagating over mud bottoms can attenuate if wave groups are formed. This is shown in wave tank experiments, where two superimposed short waves with slightly different frequencies were generated to …

Apr 9, 2021 · We compared velocity, turbulence, and suspended sediment concentration in order to understand how the sand fraction on predominantly muddy shelves affects the physical processes in wave-supported gravity flows.

Apr 12, 2008 · Muddy seafloors cause tremendous dissipation of ocean waves. Here, observations and numerical simulations of waves propagating between 5- and 2-m water depths across the muddy Louisiana continental...

Laboratory experiments of wave propagation in the presence of a highly viscous bottom fluid-mud layer (Gade, 1958) showed about 80% wave energy loss over only 2.6 wavelength, for layer thickness of about 1.3 times the wave boundary layer thickness.