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NHESS

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

NHESS

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

1684-9981

Copernicus Publications

Göttingen, Germany

10.5194/nhess-7-109-2007

3-D HOS simulations of extreme waves in open seas

Ducrozet

¹ Bonnefoy

¹ Le Touzé

¹ Ferrant

Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides, Centrale Nantes, 1 rue de la Noë, 44300 Nantes, France

25 01 2007

7 1 109 122

2007

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In the present paper we propose a method for studying extreme-wave appearance based on the Higher-Order Spectral (HOS) technique proposed by West et al. (1987) and Dommermuth and Yue (1987). The enhanced HOS model we use is presented and validated on test cases. Investigations of freak-wave events appearing within long-time evolutions of 2-D and 3-D wavefields in open seas are then realized, and the results are discussed. Such events are obtained in our periodic-domain HOS model by using different kinds of configurations: either i) we impose an initial 3-D directional spectrum with the phases adjusted so as to form a focused <i>forced</i> event after a while, or ii) we let 2-D and 3-D wavefields defined by a directional wave spectrum evolve up to the <i>natural</i> appearance of freak waves. Finally, we investigate the influence of directionality on extreme wave events with an original study of the 3-D shape of the detected freak waves.

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