Laboratory experiments using an artificial seagrass meadow modeled after Zostera marina measured the impact of following currents on meadow‐induced wave decay as a function of the imposed current velocity , wave velocity , and wave Cauchy number , which is the ratio of hydrodynamic drag force to restoring force due to blade stiffness. For small wave‐induced reconfiguration of individual seagrass blades and the addition of curr...

Experiments were conducted in a laboratory flume using an artificial seagrass meadow, modeled after Zostera marina , to examine the impact of waves on the vertical structure of time-averaged current, Reynolds stress, and turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) under combined wave-current conditions. With the addition of smaller waves, defined by a ratio of wave velocity to current velocity U w /U c < 2.5, the time-averaged velocity pea...