Occurrence probability of a freak wave in a nonlinear wave field

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-175

  Mori, Nobuhito ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Edgeworth expansion; Freak wave; Kurtosis; Maximum wave height distribution; Moment; Nonlinearity; Wave height distributions

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

NONLINEAR WAVES; SURFACE ELEVATION;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

EXTREME EVENT; NONLINEARITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WAVE FIELD; WAVE HEIGHT;

EID: 0344062924     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-8018(03)00119-7     Document Type: Article

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