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Karl R. Helfrich

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58

Publications

4.7K

Citations

36

H-Index

1982

Active since

Affiliations

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution(Current)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Loughborough University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Karl R. Helfrich is an author at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution specializing in engineering, fluid mechanics, and physics.

Top concepts

EngineeringFluid DynamicsOceanographyPhysicsEarth ScienceOcean DynamicsGeophysicsCivil EngineeringInternal WavesMarine Hydrodynamics

Publications per year

1982–2019

58

Publications

58

LONG NONLINEAR INTERNAL WAVES

Karl R. Helfrich, W. Kendall Melville · Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics · 2005 · 800 citations

Nonlinear Ocean Waves, Engineering, Physics +12

The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea

Matthew H. Alford, Thomas Peacock, Jennifer MacKinnon et al. · Nature · 2015 · 684 citations · Full text

Geophysics, Marine Geology, Engineering +7

Internal solitary wave breaking and run-up on a uniform slope

Karl R. Helfrich · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1992 · 235 citations

Nonlinear Ocean Waves, Laboratory Experiments, Engineering +12

On long nonlinear internal waves over slope-shelf topography

Karl R. Helfrich, W. Kendall Melville · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1986 · 207 citations

Engineering, Shallow Water Hydrodynamics, Slope–shelf Topography +16

Buoyant gravity currents along a sloping bottom in a rotating fluid

Steven J. Lentz, Karl R. Helfrich · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 2002 · 152 citations

Ocean Dynamics, Engineering, Fluid Mechanics +17

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