On the skewness of sea-surface elevation

DOI10.1017/S0022112086002653zbMath0586.76018OpenAlexW2053694781MaRDI QIDQ3711999

Meric A. Srokosz, Michael S. Longuet-Higgins

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112086002653

zbMATH Keywords

surface gravity wavesair-sea interfacelowest orderfree-floating buoyrounded troughssharp crestsSurface skewnessthe skewness is invariantvertical asymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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Cites Work

• On the dynamics of unsteady gravity waves of finite amplitude Part 2. Local properties of a random wave field
• The effect of non-linearities on statistical distributions in the theory of sea waves

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