Nonlinear ship wake waves as a model of rogue waves and a source of danger to the coastal environment: a review

A substantial part of the energy of wake waves from high-speedships sailing in shallow water is concentrated in nonlinear componentswhich at times have a solitonic nature. Recent results of investigationsinto solitonic wave interactions within the framework of theKadomtsev-Petviashvili equation and...

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Main Author: Tarmo Soomere
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2006-06-01
Series:Oceanologia
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Online Access:http://www.iopan.gda.pl/oceanologia/48_S.html#A10