Surfers have taken to the ocean for centuries. Ancient Polynesian civilizations were surfing as far back as 2,000 BC, and there is evidence of wave riding in 12th-century Hawaii. Of course, back then, ...

Shock formation represents the process whereby smooth solutions to the governing equations of fluid dynamics undergo a transition to discontinuous states. In compressible fluid dynamics, this ...

The open ocean can get fierce and wild. There, whipped into a frenzy, ocean swells and troughs can create walls of water that dwarf our puny seafaring vessels, and wreak peril on the humans brave ...

When giant waves —sometimes 30 meters tall, many times the height of the surrounding crests—suddenly rear up out of the ocean, they pose severe threats to even the largest craft. Unlike tsunamis, ...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. LU Quanming and Prof. GAO Xinliang from the School of Earth and Space Sciences and the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory at the University of Science and ...