Statistical properties of mechanically generated surface gravity waves: a laboratory experiment in a three-dimensional wave basin
By M. Onorato, Luigi Cavaleri, Sébastien Fouques, Odin Gramstad, Peter A. E. M. Janssen, Jaak Monbaliu, A. Osborne, Csaba Pákozdi, M. Serio, C. Stansberg and 2 more. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2009
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A wave basin experiment has been performed in the MARINTEK laboratories, in one of the largest existing three-dimensional wave tanks in the world. The aim of the experiment is to investigate the effects of directional energy distribution on the statistical properties of surface gravity waves. Different degrees of directionality have been considered, starting from long-crested waves up to directional distributions with a spread of ±30° at the spectral peak. Particular attention is given to the tails of the distribution function of the surface elevation, wave heights and wave crests. Comparison with a simplified model based on second-order theory is reported. The results show that for long-crested, steep and narrow-banded waves, the second-order theory underestimates the probability of occurrence of large waves. As directional effects are included, the departure from second-order theory becomes less accentuated and the surface elevation is characterized by weak deviations from Gaussian statistics.
Subfields: Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography
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- On the Estimation of the Kurtosis in Directional Sea States for Freak Wave Forecasting (2011, unknown): “The details of experiments are summarized in Onorato et al. (2009a) and Waseda et al. (2009), and two experiments are directly compared in Onorato et al. (2009b).”
- Evolution of a Random Directional Wave and Freak Wave Occurrence (2009, result): “We are also aware of the recent experimental and numerical works suggesting similar results (M. Onorato, P. A. E. M. Janssen, and N. Mori 2007, personal communication; Onorato et al. 2009).”