Lévy statistics of water wave forces

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 230, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 359-363

  West, Bruce J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; SEAWATER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE WAVES;

EMPIRICAL SPECTRA; GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; LEVY STATISTICS; RANDOM FORCES;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 0030244286     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(96)00117-3     Document Type: Article

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