On the adequacy of second-order models to predict abnormal waves

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 956-961

  Petrova, P ^a   Cherneva, Z ^a   Guedes Soares, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Abnormal waves; Asymmetric waves; Second order models

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ABNORMAL WAVES; ASYMMETRIC WAVES; LARGE WAVES; SECOND ORDER MODELS; SECOND-ORDER APPROXIMATION;

WATER WAVES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

DATA SET; OIL PLATFORM; STORM; WATER WAVE; WAVE MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 34147149111     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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