Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution February 2010
Description:
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.
Description:
This project
was supported by the US Office of Naval Research and the Joint Program between
MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
Keywords:
Ocean waves
;
Statistics
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Thesis
Format:
application/pdf
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