Numerical modeling of extreme rogue waves generated by directional energy focusing

Wave Motion

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 395-416

  Fochesato, Christophe ^a,c   Grilli, Stéphan ^b   Dias, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Extreme wave kinematics; Numerical wave tank; Rogue waves; Water waves

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

DIRECTIONAL ENERGY FOCUSING; EXTREME WAVE KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL WAVE TANK; ROGUE WAVES;

WATER WAVES;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; WATER WAVES; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; POTENTIAL FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER DEPTH;

EID: 33947361168     PISSN: 01652125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wavemoti.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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