2.22 | Spring 2005 | Graduate

Design Principles for Ocean Vehicles (13.42)

Readings

lec6_wavespectra.pdf

Description:

This resource describes Ocean wave generation. It contains World Meteorological Org. Sea State Codes, and explains wind generated waves, typical spectrum, limitations on Empirical Spectra, Wave Spectra, Pierson-Moskowitz spectrum, spectrum assumptions, Bretschneider spectrum, JONSWAP spectrum, Ochi spectrum, Storm and Swell, directionality in waves, short term and long term statistics, Storm statistics, and observed wave heights.

Resource Type:
Readings
pdf
2 MB
lec6_wavespectra.pdf

Course Info

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Spring 2005
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