Extreme, freak, rogue or giant waves correspond to the large-amplitude waves that suddenly appear on the sea surface and are referred to as ‘a wave from nowhere’, ‘walls of water’, ‘holes in the sea’. They can cause serious damages to the offshore industry and navigation. Rogue waves have been part of marine folklore for centuries, but only since the 1970s have oceanographers started tobelieve in their existence due to the observations of the oil and shipping industries. During the past thirty years a number of physical models of the rogue wave phenomenon have been intensively developed. Numerous experimental, statistical and theoretical investigations are intended to understand the physics of the huge wave formation, its relation to the environmental conditions and to provide a freak wave design for engineering purposes. The present book is aimed to show the great progress that has been achieved in the understanding of the physical mechanisms of the huge water waves phenomenon during the last years. Uses fully nonlinear hydrodynamic numerical models to discuss rougue wavesPresents statistics data, analysis of the wave groups and the role of different factors like resonance in the formation and dynamics of large-amplitude waves The appearance of extreme waves, their variational and average wave conditions are studied on the basis of the data from long-term observations INDICE: Preface.- Freak waves: Peculiarities of numerical simulations.- Rogue waves in high-order nonlinear Schrödinger models.- Non-Gaussian propertiesof shallow water waves in crossing seas.- Modeling 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.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-8313-6
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 225
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés