Statistics of Wave Crest Characteristics

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2005-02-12
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Thestatisticaldistributionofwavecrestcharacteristicssuchascrestlength,crestheight,jointcrestheightandlengthareanalyzedbasedonnumericalsimulationof3-Drandomwaves.Theeffectsofdirectionalfunctionsandwavecrestdefiningmethodsoncrestcharacteristicsarealsostudied.Theresultsshowthatwavecrestsarenolongeruniformandcontinuousindirectionalwavefield;thedistributionofcrestlengthisobviouslyinfluencedbythedirectionalfunction;thestatisticsofcrestcharacteristicsobtainedbythetwodifferentmethodsarealmostthesame.