Wave-height distributions and nonlinear effects

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1631-1649

  Tayfun, M Aziz ^a   Fedele, Francesco ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulants; Extreme values; Gram Charlier series; Nonlinear waves; Probability distributions; Sampling variability; Wave crests; Wave envelopes and phases; Wave heights; Wave interactions; Wave troughs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS;

GRAM-CHARLIER MODELS; RANDOM WAVES; STOKES-RAYLEIGH MODELS; WAVE CRESTS; WAVE HEIGHTS; WAVE TROUGHS;

WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS; WATER WAVE EFFECTS;

FLUME EXPERIMENT; NONLINEAR WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; STOKES FORMULA; WAVE HEIGHT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 34247211261     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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