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🌊 Rip Current Lab: Sandbar, Breaking Waves, Wave Set-up and How to Escape

Model how breaking waves on a sandbar with a gap drive a rip current: depth-limited wave breaking, radiation-stress forcing, wave set-up and nonlinear shallow-water flow. Test swim-straight, float and swim-parallel escape strategies, with four in-page numerical checks.

Maritime & Naval Engineering2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
Rip Current Lab: Sandbar, Breaking Waves, Wave Set-up and How to Escape ↗ Open standalone
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Model how breaking waves on a sandbar with a gap drive a rip current: depth-limited wave breaking, radiation-stress forcing, wave set-up and nonlinear shallow-water flow. Test swim-straight, float and swim-parallel escape strategies, with four in-page numerical checks.

Rip CurrentSurf ZoneWave SetupRadiation StressCoastal Safety

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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