A study of ocean wave statistical properties using nonlinear, directional, phase-resolved ocean wave-field simulations
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Henry, Legena Albertha
Advisor(s)
Dick K. P. Yue.
Date Issued
2010
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
In the present work, we study the statistics of wavefields obtained from non-linear phase-resolved simulations. The numerical model used to generate the waves models wave-wave interactions based on the fully non-linear Zakharov equations. We vary the simulated wavefield's input spectral properties: directional spreading function, Phillips parameter and peak shape parameter. We then investigate the relationships between a wavefield's input spectral properties and its output physical properties via statistical analysis. We investigate surface elevation distribution, wave definition methods in a nonlinear wavefield with a two-dimensional wavenumber, defined waves' distributions, and the occurrence and spacing of large wave events.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), February 2010.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-334).
Also available at http://hdl.handle.net/1912/3230
Subjects
Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering.
Mechanical Engineering.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
MIT Department
Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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