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Science and engineering of freak waves /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mori, Nobuhito, Waseda, Takuji, Chabchoub, Amin
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Diego : Elsevier, 2023.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Science and Engineering of Freak Waves
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • About the editors
  • Preface
  • 1 What is a rogue/freak wave?
  • Introduction
  • Ocean rogue wave observations
  • Wave evolution in the ocean
  • Causes of rogue waves
  • Linear wave focusing
  • Nonlinear wave focusing
  • Bathymetry focusing
  • Wave-current interaction
  • Summary
  • References
  • 2 History of freak/rogue wave research
  • Introduction
  • The origin of its name
  • Weak nonlinear process of the evolution of ocean waves
  • Marine accidents and reproductions of observed wave fields
  • Impact of freak waves on offshore structures and ships
  • Warning criteria
  • What is relevant from an engineering perspective?
  • References
  • 3 Long-term in situ measurements of rogue waves
  • Introduction
  • Lagrangian measurements
  • Eulerian measurements
  • Discussion
  • References
  • 4 Measurements 2: space-time measurements of freak waves
  • Introduction
  • Description of freak waves in space and time
  • Sensors for space-time measurements
  • Stereo imaging
  • Polarimetric imaging
  • X-band radars
  • Space-time records with freak wave occurrence
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 5 Mechanism 1: nonlinear wave interactions
  • Introduction
  • Linear random wave theory
  • Nonlinear random wave theory
  • Unidirectional waves
  • Multidirectional waves
  • Nonlinear wave height statistics
  • Discussion
  • Summary
  • References
  • 6 Mechanism 2: crossing waves
  • Introduction
  • Phenomena and governing equations for describing crossing seas
  • Second-order nonlinear interaction
  • Third-order interactions
  • Phase-resolving equations for describing crossing seas
  • Coupled nonlinear Schr�odinger equations
  • Coupled Zakharov equations
  • Energy-balanced equations for describing crossing seas
  • Field and laboratory measurements
  • Field measurements
  • Laboratory experiments
  • Rogue wave predictions in crossing wave fields
  • Numerical simulations
  • Energy-based equations and modeling of crossing seas
  • Potential equations and their solutions
  • Nonlinear wave statistics
  • On wave height and wave crest distributions
  • On skewness of surface elevation
  • On kurtosis of surface elevation
  • Perspectives
  • References
  • 7 Mechanism 3: Bathymetry effects
  • Introduction
  • Nonlinear wave theory over uneven bottoms
  • Unidirectional wave propagation
  • Two-dimensional wave propagation
  • Modeling and solutions
  • Discussion
  • Summary
  • References
  • 8 Prediction 1: short-term prediction of extreme waves
  • Introduction
  • Prediction with a nonlinear model
  • The model
  • Operational implementation
  • Prediction with artificial intelligence approaches
  • Machine learning models
  • Artificial neural network
  • Support vector machine
  • Random forest
  • Probability mapping
  • Training, validation, and testing
  • Applications
  • Conclusion