The nature and analysis of random waves in shallow water. Part 1: Text and figures
Abstract
It is assumed that in deep water the random wave surface is built up of an infinite number of independent sinusoidal components and can therefore be represented by a Fourier series. The wave surface described is Gaussian, which means that the water elevations measured relative to the mean water level are normally distributed if sampled at constant intervals of time. At the same time the wave heights are Rayleigh distributed.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- March 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983STIN...8413496S
- Keywords:
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- Random Sampling;
- Shallow Water;
- Water Waves;
- Fourier Series;
- Height;
- Normal Density Functions;
- Rayleigh Distribution;
- Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer