On nonlinear wave groups and crest statistics

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 620, Issue , 2009, Pages 221-239

  Fedele, Francesco ^a   Tayfun, M Aziz ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

GENERALIZED DISTRIBUTION; SKEWNESS COEFFICIENTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STEEPNESS PARAMETER; SURFACE DISPLACEMENT; THEORETICAL EXPRESSION; THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR EFFECT; WEAKLY NON-LINEAR;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

DISPLACEMENT; NONLINEAR WAVE; SKEWNESS; STOCHASTICITY; WIND WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 65649118629     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008004424     Document Type: Article

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