Probability of occurrence of a "giant" wave crest

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 483-490

  Prevosto, Marc ^a   Bouffandeau, Barbara ^b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVE CRESTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVE EFFECTS;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036442366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2002-28446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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