A new probability distribution function of wave steepness
| Autor: | Xiulan Jiang, Yuhua Pei, Guizhen Zheng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Ocean Engineering Probability density function Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Sea state Oceanography Measure (mathematics) Physics::Fluid Dynamics Flume symbols.namesake Narrowband Distribution (mathematics) Statistics symbols Statistical physics Gaussian process Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Ocean University of China. 7:246-250 |
| ISSN: | 1993-5021 1672-5182 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11802-008-0246-3 |
| Popis: | Wave steepness is an important characteristic describing the severity of sea state in ocean engineering. In the existing theoretical and experimental studies, wave steepness is often substituted by some related quantities. In this paper, a new probability density function (pdf) of steepness, which is a pdf of the steepness in its original definition, is obtained for narrowband Gaussian processes. The drawback inherent in the previous theoretical pdfs of steepness, that is, the probability density at zero steepness is nonzero, has been eliminated. Laboratory experiments were conducted in a wind-wave flume to measure the wave steepness distribution. Comparisons among laboratory measurements and some theoretical pdfs of steepness show that the new pdf generally fits the data better than the one proposed by Zheng et al. (1999). |
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