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Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Marine Science Année : 2022

Space-time statistics of extreme ocean waves in crossing sea states

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The study of extreme ocean waves has gained considerable interest in recent years, due to their importance for offshore design and navigation safety, and several theoretical approaches have been developed for their statistical description. However, in the case of crossing seas, where two or more wave systems of different characteristics are present, a full understanding of the main physical mechanisms responsible for the occurrence of very high individual waves is still lacking. As a consequence, the prediction of extremes in such conditions currently relies on integrated parameters of the total sea state, such as the spectral wave steepness. In this study, to gain further insight into the role of the crossing wind sea and swell wave systems in producing extreme individual waves, we investigate realistic sea states during typhoon Kong-rey (2018) using an ensemble of numerical simulations obtained from a phase-resolving wave model based on the High-Order Spectral (HOS) method. The reliability of the numerical fields is assessed for the first time with stereo wave measurements of the sea surface elevation field collected from an offshore platform in the area of interest. We show that, in specific conditions, space-time extreme crest heights in crossing seas can be larger than in unimodal seas due to second-order bound wave interactions between the wind sea and the swell. To improve existing prediction capabilities, we propose a novel formulation for the wave steepness in crossing seas, which includes nonlinear effects up to the second order and accounts for the spectral parameters of the interacting wave systems.
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hal-03889091 , version 1 (07-12-2022)

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Silvio Davison, Alvise Benetazzo, Francesco Barbariol, Guillaume Ducrozet, Jeseon Yoo, et al.. Space-time statistics of extreme ocean waves in crossing sea states. Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022, 9, pp.1002806. ⟨10.3389/fmars.2022.1002806⟩. ⟨hal-03889091⟩
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