Open AccessWAVE-WAVE INTERACTIONS, CURRENT-WAVE INTERACTIONS AND RESULTING EXTREME WAVES AND BREAKING WAVES
Author(s) -
Søren Peter Kjeldsen,
Dag Myrhaug
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v17.136
Subject(s) - breaking wave , crest , rogue wave , wind wave , mechanical wave , front (military) , current (fluid) , asymmetry , mechanics , storm , physics , geology , wave height , transient (computer programming) , surface wave , wave propagation , longitudinal wave , meteorology , nonlinear system , optics , computer science , oceanography , quantum mechanics , operating system
The influence of an opposing current on highly non-linear transient breaking waves in deep water is described quantitatively from experiments. 3 new parameters that describe crest front steepness and wave asymmetry are introduced. Further, joint probability density distributions are obtained from an analysis of field data containing nearly 25000 storm waves. Thus, a tool is provided from which estimates for probabilities for occurrences of steep breaking waves in deep water, may be obtained.