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The ideal flip-through impact: Experimental and Numerical investigation

In a narrow margin between violent overturning waves and benign sloshing waves there exists a theoretically possible but peculiar phenomenon: flip-through. Here, high structural loads can be generated on steep-fronted coastal structures without the wave actually impacting. This invited paper describes the first physical observation of the classic flip-through wave (where no air is entrapped) providing evidence of its existence within a laboratory environment. It was published in a tribute to the late Howell Peregrine, editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, who alongside Mark Cooker first described the theoretical formulation of this phenomenon in 1990 (EPSRC: EP/D080754/1 and EP/D080533/1).