The taming of the shrew: Tailoring freak wave sequences for seakeeping tests

Journal of Ship Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 194-226

  Clauss, Günther F ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer aided ship handling; Deterministic seakeeping tests; Freak waves; Generation of wave sequences; Rayleigh distribution; Rogue waves; Wave structure interaction; Weinblum

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTIVES; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OFFSHORE OIL FIELDS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; RAILROAD CARS; SEMISUBMERSIBLES; SLAMMING (SHIPS); STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TARGETS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTER-AIDED SHIP HANDLING; DETERMINISTIC SEAKEEPING TESTS; FREAK WAVES; GENERATION OF WAVE SEQUENCES; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTION; ROGUE WAVES; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; WEINBLUM;

WAVES;

EID: 53349166004     PISSN: 00224502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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