Rogue waves and their generating mechanisms in different physical contexts

M Onorato, S Residori, U Bortolozzo, A Montina… - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
Rogue waves is the name given by oceanographers to isolated large amplitude waves, that
occur more frequently than expected for normal, Gaussian distributed, statistical events …

Real world ocean rogue waves explained without the modulational instability

F Fedele, J Brennan, S Ponce de León, J Dudley… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Since the 1990s, the modulational instability has commonly been used to explain the
occurrence of rogue waves that appear from nowhere in the open ocean. However, the …

A brief discussion on offshore wind turbine hydrodynamics problem

Z Gao, X Feng, Z Zhang, Z Liu, X Gao, L Zhang… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Recently, offshore renewable energy has received significant attentions from most oceanic
countries. Its multiple disciplinary nature appears as a hot research spot. Among those …

Rogue wave occurrence and dynamics by direct simulations of nonlinear wave-field evolution

W Xiao, Y Liu, G Wu, DKP Yue - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2013 - cambridge.org
We study the occurrence and dynamics of rogue waves in three-dimensional deep water
using phase-resolved numerical simulations based on a high-order spectral (HOS) method …

Recent developments of ocean environmental description with focus on uncertainties

EM Bitner-Gregersen, SK Bhattacharya… - Ocean …, 2014 - Elsevier
A review of the recent progress made regarding ocean environmental data and models with
uncertainties in focus is given in the perspective of marine structures׳ design and operations …

Varying ocean wave statistics emerging from a single energy spectrum in an experimental wave tank

M Canard, G Ducrozet, B Bouscasse - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
As it strongly impacts the design of offshore structures, the realistic reproduction of sea
states in experimental and numerical wave tanks is of great interest to the ocean …

On the kurtosis of deep-water gravity waves

F Fedele - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015 - cambridge.org
In this paper, we revisit Janssen's (J. Phys. Oceanogr., vol. 33 (4), 2003, pp. 863–884)
formulation for the dynamic excess kurtosis of weakly nonlinear gravity waves in deep water …

Peregrine breather revisited

L Shemer, L Alperovich - Physics of Fluids, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Results of experiments on the evolution of the Peregrine breather (PB) in a wave tank are
presented and compared with numerical simulations based on the Nonlinear Schrödinger …

Extreme waves induced by strong depth transitions: Fully nonlinear results

C Viotti, F Dias - Physics of Fluids, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Recent studies on free-surface gravity waves over uneven bathymetries have shown that
“rogue” waves can be triggered by strong depth variations. This phenomenon is here …

A laboratory study of wave crest statistics and the role of directional spreading

M Latheef, C Swan - Proceedings of the Royal Society A …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This paper concerns the crest height statistics arising in sea states that are broad banded in
both frequency and direction. A new set of laboratory observations are presented and the …