Extreme waves in random crossing seas: Laboratory experiments and numerical simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Toffoli, A ^a   Bitner Gregersen, E M ^b   Osborne, A R ^c   Serio, M ^c   Monbaliu, J ^d   Onorato, M ^c  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b DNV GL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EULER EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME WAVES; HIGHER-ORDER METHODS; INTERACTING SYSTEM; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; WAVE BASINS; WAVE SYSTEM;

EXPERIMENTS;

EULERIAN ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; NONLINEAR WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURFACE WAVE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 79953206939     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046827     Document Type: Article

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