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Runup of Long Irregular Waves on Plane Beach

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Runup of irregular waves, modeled as superposition of Furrier harmonics with random phases, is studied in frames of nonlinear shallow water theory. The possibility of appearance of freak waves on a beach is analyzed. The distribution functions of runup characteristics are computed. An incident wave represents an irregular sea state with Gaussian spectrum. The asymptotic of probability functions in the range of large amplitudes for estimation of freak wave formation in the shore is studied. It is shown that the average runup height of waves with wide spectrum is higher than of waves with narrow spectrum.

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the basic part of the state contract No 2014/133 and RFBR grants (14-02-00983, 14-05-00092, 15-35-20563). Ira Didenkulova acknowledges grant MK-1146.2014.5. Anna Sergeeva thanks Volkswagen Foundation.

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Didenkulova, I., Pelinovsky, E., Sergeeva, A. (2016). Runup of Long Irregular Waves on Plane Beach. In: Pelinovsky, E., Kharif, C. (eds) Extreme Ocean Waves. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21575-4_8

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