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D-Index
39
Citations
5161
World Ranking
2167
National Ranking
791

Overview

Marc Perlin is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with a significant focus on subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, Computational Mechanics, Ocean Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work addresses key topics including Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions, Earthquake and Tsunami Effects, Wave and Wind Energy Systems, and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows.

Marc Perlin has contributed scholarly articles to several publication venues, most frequently in:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Journal of Marine Science and Application

Some recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • Numerical investigation of seismic-induced harbor oscillations, 2020, Coastal Engineering
  • Experimental study of plunging solitary waves impacting a vertical slender cylinder, 2020, Ocean Engineering
  • A wavelet-based wave group detector and predictor of extreme events over unidirectional sloping bathymetry, 2021, Ocean Engineering
  • Modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation for gravity waves with the influence of wind, currents, and dissipation, 2023, Physics of Fluids
  • An experiment on reconstruction and analyses of in-situ measured freak waves, 2021, Ocean Engineering

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, with notable co-authors including:

  • Yuxiang Ma
  • Guohai Dong
  • Bing Tai
  • Ruili Fu
  • Xiaozhou Ma

Best Publications

  • Bubble friction drag reduction in a high-Reynolds-number flat-plate turbulent boundary layer

    Wendy C. Sanders;Eric S. Winkel;David R. Dowling;Marc Perlin

  • Bubble-induced skin-friction drag reduction and the abrupt transition to air-layer drag reduction

    Brian R. Elbing;Eric S. Winkel;Keary A. Lay;Steven L. Ceccio

  • Breaking Waves in Deep and Intermediate Waters

    Marc Perlin;Woo Young Choi;Woo Young Choi;Zhigang Tian

  • Characterization of superhydrophobic surfaces for drag reduction in turbulent flow

    James W. Gose;Kevin Golovin;Mathew Boban;Joseph M. Mabry

  • Capillary Effects on Surface Waves

    Marc Perlin;William W. Schultz

  • Initial water impact of a wedge at vertical and oblique angles

    C. Judge;Armin W. Troesch;Marc Perlin

  • On the energy economics of air lubrication drag reduction

    Simo A. Mäkiharju;Marc Perlin;Steven L. Ceccio

  • An experimental study of deep water plunging breakers

    Marc Perlin;Jianhui He;Luis P. Bernal

  • Skin-friction drag reduction in the turbulent regime using random-textured hydrophobic surfaces

    Rahul A. Bidkar;Luc Leblanc;Ambarish J. Kulkarni;Vaibhav Bahadur

  • Energy dissipation in two-dimensional unsteady plunging breakers and an eddy viscosity model

    Zhigang Tian;Marc Perlin;Wooyoung Choi

  • Influence of bubble size on micro-bubble drag reduction

    Xiaochun Shen;Steven L. Ceccio;Marc Perlin

  • Bioinspired surfaces for turbulent drag reduction.

    Kevin B. Golovin;James W. Gose;Marc Perlin;Steven L. Ceccio

  • On the scaling of air layer drag reduction

    Brian R. Elbing;Simo Mäkiharju;Andrew Wiggins;Marc Perlin

  • Moderate and steep Faraday waves: instabilities, modulation and temporal asymmetries

    Lei Jiang;Chao Lung Ting;Marc Perlin;William W. Schultz

  • Boundary conditions in the vicinity of the contact line at a vertically oscillating upright plate: an experimental investigation

    Chao Lung Ting;Marc Perlin

  • Time-resolved two-dimensional X-ray densitometry of a two-phase flow downstream of a ventilated cavity

    Simo A. Mäkiharju;Celine Gabillet;Bu Geun Paik;Natasha A. Chang

  • Bubble-size distributions produced by wall injection of air into flowing freshwater, saltwater and surfactant solutions

    Eric S. Winkel;Steven L. Ceccio;David R. Dowling;Marc Perlin

  • A Numerical Model to Simulate Sediment Transport in the Vicinity of Coastal Structures

    Marc Perlin;Robert G Dean

  • Using cross correlations of turbulent flow-induced ambient vibrations to estimate the structural impulse response. Application to structural health monitoring.

    Karim G. Sabra;Eric S. Winkel;Dwayne A. Bourgoyne;Brian R. Elbing

  • Period tripling and energy dissipation of breaking standing waves

    Lei Jiang;Marc Perlin;William W. Schultz

  • On parasitic capillary waves generated by steep gravity waves: an experimental investigation with spatial and temporal measurements

    Marc Perlin;Huanjay Lin;Chao Lung Ting

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Ceccio
Steven L. Ceccio University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David R. Dowling
David R. Dowling University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Anish Tuteja
Anish Tuteja University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert G. Dean
Robert G. Dean University of Florida
Michael J. Solomon
Michael J. Solomon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Michael P. Schultz
Michael P. Schultz United States Naval Academy
Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck
Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck University College London
Joseph M. Mabry
Joseph M. Mabry United States Air Force Research Laboratory
William A. Kuperman
William A. Kuperman University of California, San Diego

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