The influence of directional spreading on rogue waves triggered by abrupt depth transitions

An increased number of rogue waves, relative to standard distributions, can be induced by unidirectional waves passing over abrupt decreases in water depth. We investigate this phenomenon in a more general setting of multidirectional waves. We examine the influence of the directionality on the occurrence probability of rogue waves using...

The impact of removing the high-frequency spectral tail on rogue wave statistics

When making directional surface gravity waves in a wave tank or when initialising numerical simulations of the ocean, the wave spectrum is often curtailed suppressing higher frequencies and wavenumbers. We consider the impact of doing this by numerically simulating two seminal experiments, those of Onorato et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 627, 2009,...

Mass variation observing system by high low inter-satellite links (MOBILE) - A new concept for sustained observation of mass transport from space

As changes in gravity are directly related to mass variability, satellite missions observing the Earth's time varying gravity field are a unique tool for observing mass transport processes in the Earth system, such as the water cycle, rapid changes in the cryosphere, oceans, and solid Earth processes, on a global scale. The observation of...

Towards Real Time Simulation of Ship-Ship Interaction

Multigrid preconditioning for efficient solution of the 3D Laplace problem for wave-body interaction

A high-order finite difference method for nonlinear wave-structure interaction

Nonlinear irregular wave forces on near-shore structures by a high-order Boussinesq method

A hybrid Boussinesq-panel method for predicting the motion of a moored ship