Can swell increase the number of freak waves in a wind sea?

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 650, Issue , 2010, Pages 57-79

  Gramstad, Odin ^a   Trulsen, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY;

EXTENDED VERSIONS; FREAK WAVE; MODIFIED EQUATION; NARROW BANDED; NONLINEAR EVOLUTIONS; NONLINEAR SCHRDINGER EQUATIONS; SHORT WAVES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE);

FLUID DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SWELL; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND WAVE;

EID: 77952425325     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009993491     Document Type: Article

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