Sea-well interaction as a mechanism for the generation of freak waves

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Regev, A ^a   Agnon, Y ^a   Stiassnie, M ^a   Gramstad, O ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE STRUCTURE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WATER WAVES;

FREAK WAVE; QUADRATIC INTERACTION; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 57149115151     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3012542     Document Type: Article

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