A new view of nonlinear water waves: The Hilbert spectrum

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 31, Issue , 1999, Pages 417-457

  Huang, Norden E ^a,b   Shen, Zheng ^a,c   Long, Steven R ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical mode decomposition; Hilbert spectral analysis; Hilbert transform; Nonlinear process; Nonstationary

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; TURBULENCE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FLUID MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

NONLINEAR WATER WAVES; EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION; HILBERT SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; HILBERT TRANSFORM; NONLINEAR MECHANICS;

WATER WAVES;

NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WATER WAVE;

EID: 0033489494     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.31.1.417     Document Type: Article

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