Estimation of wave directional spreading in shallow water

✍ Scribed by V.Sanil Kumar; M.C Deo; N.M Anand; P Chandramohan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 407 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-8018
• DOI: 10.1016/s0029-8018(97)10014-2

✦ Synopsis

This paper describes wave directional spreading in shallow water. Waves were measured for a period of 2 months using the Datawell directional waverider buoy at 15 m water depth on the east coast of India in the Bay of Bengal. The study also showed that in shallow water wave directional spreading was narrowest at peak frequency and widened towards lower and higher frequencies. The wind direction was found to deviate from the wave direction during most of the time. The unidirectional spectrum was found to be satisfactorily represented by Scott spectra.