On the Distribution of Random Waves and Cycles

  • Igor Rychlik
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Statistics book series (LNS, volume 51)

Abstract

Many technically important problems involving random processes depend on the extremes of the studied functions, which can be regarded as a sequence of “waves” or “cycles”. This paper presents some recently proposed approximations for wavelength and amplitude distributions for three commonly used definitions of waves, when the studied function is a sample path of an ergodic, stationary, twice continuously differentiable process.

Keywords

Crossings fatigue periods analysis Slepian model process wave-height wave-length 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Igor Rychlik
    • 1
  1. 1.Dept. of Mathematical StatisticsUniversity of LundLundSweden

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