Extreme Ocean Waves

Extreme, freak or rogue waves are produced by a number of physical mechanisms that focus the water-wave energy into a small area, due to wave instability, chaotic behaviour, dispersion (frequency modulation), refraction (presence of variable currents or bottom topography), soliton interactions, etc....

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Pelinovsky, Efim (Editor), Kharif, Christian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Freak Waves: Peculiarities of Numerical Simulations
  • Rogue Waves in Higher Order Nonlinear Schrödinger Models
  • Non-Gaussian Properties of Shallow Water Waves in Crossing Seas
  • Modelling of Rogue Wave Shapes in Shallow Water
  • Runup of Long Irregular Waves on Plane Beach
  • Symbolic Computation for Nonlinear Wave Resonances
  • Searching for Factors that Limit Observed Extreme Maximum Wave Height Distributions in the North Sea
  • Extremes and Decadal Variations of the Northern Baltic Sea Wave Conditions
  • Extreme Waves Generated by Cyclones in Guadeloupe
  • An Analytical Model of Large Amplitude Internal Solitary Waves.