Extreme Ocean Waves

✍ Scribed by Efim Pelinovsky, Christian Kharif

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2016
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This revised and updated second edition details the vast progress that has been achieved in the understanding of the physical mechanisms of rogue wave phenomenon in recent years. The selected articles address such issues as the formation of rogue waves due to modulational instability of nonlinear wave field, physical and statistical properties of extreme ocean wave generation in deep water as well as in shallow water, various models of nonlinear water waves, special analysis of nonlinear resonances between water waves and the relation between in situ observations, experimental data and rogue wave theories. In addition, recent results on tsunami waves due to subaerial landslides are presented. This book is written for specialists in the fields of fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, nonlinear physics, physical oceanography and geophysics, and for students learning these subjects.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Rogue Waves in Higher Order Nonlinear Schrödinger Models....Pages 1-21
Freak-Waves: Compact Equation Versus Fully Nonlinear One....Pages 23-44
Occurrence of Extreme Waves in Finite Water Depth....Pages 45-62
Modeling of Rogue Wave Shapes in Shallow Water....Pages 63-73
Non-Gaussian Properties of Shallow Water Waves in Crossing Seas....Pages 75-91
Searching for Factors that Limit Observed Extreme Maximum Wave Height Distributions in the North Sea....Pages 93-105
Extremes and Decadal Variations in the Baltic Sea Wave Conditions....Pages 107-140
Runup of Long Irregular Waves on Plane Beach....Pages 141-153
Numerical Study for Run-Up of Breaking Waves of Different Polarities on a Sloping Beach....Pages 155-172
Tsunami Waves Generated by Cliff Collapse: Comparison Between Experiments and Triphasic Simulations....Pages 173-190
An Analytical Model of Large Amplitude Internal Solitary Waves....Pages 191-201
Symbolic Computation for Nonlinear Wave Resonances....Pages 203-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-236

✦ Subjects

Oceanography; Geophysics/Geodesy; Natural Hazards; Geophysics and Environmental Physics