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Wave height
About: Wave height is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5920 publications have been published within this topic receiving 100257 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Naess model and a two-parameter Weibull distribution for the wave height transformation in the wave data and compared the results with existing models.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an improved formulation to describe breaking wave energy dissipation is presented and incorporated into a previous parametric cross-shore wave transformation model, which leads to an important improvement in predicting wave height condition close to the shoreline in non-saturated surf zone conditions.
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TL;DR: In this article, post-hurricane Ike surveys for almost 2,000 individual wood-framed houses were combined with high resolution numerical hindcasts to investigate the collapse limit state arising from overland waves and surge.
Abstract: Posthurricane Ike surveys for almost 2,000 individual wood-framed houses were combined with high resolution numerical hindcasts to investigate the collapse limit state arising from overland waves and surge. For this storm, freeboard above wave crests, wave height, current velocity, and construction date were found to be the most important factors determining survival. Regressions show considerable skill in predicting collapse fragilities and will prove useful in assessing vulnerability. The relatively small range of wind speeds available in the data set did not allow accurate assessments of wind effects on collapse. Several ASCE and FEMA force estimates showed relatively low skill in modeling fragility, in large part because their breaking wave assumption was not accurate over much of the range. However, the use of best-estimate wave heights in force modeling greatly improved accuracy of fragility estimates. Despite the positive results of this study, numerous questions remain. It proved impossibl...
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TL;DR: In this paper, a bivariate maximum entropy distribution of significant wave heights and the corresponding peak periods is proposed and compared with other bivariate approaches using data from one location in the North Atlantic and a simulated sample by Monte Carlo method.
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TL;DR: In this article, a 2.5m hydro-elastic segmented catamaran model has been developed based on the 112 m INCAT Tasmania wave-piercer boat to establish the peak wave slamming loads acting on the full-scale vessel.
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