Extreme two-dimensional water waves: An assessment of potential design solutions

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 387-416

  Smith, S F ^a,b   Swan, C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Noble Denton Europe Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design wave solutions; Energy transfers; Extreme waves; Nonlinear waves; Wave wave interactions

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; KINEMATICS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER WAVES;

GREEN-WATER INUNDATION;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

DESIGN; EXTREME EVENT; MODEL TEST; OFFSHORE PLATFORM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WATER WAVE; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

DESIGN; EXTREME EVENT; MODEL TEST; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WATER WAVE; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 0035976060     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-8018(01)00028-2     Document Type: Article

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