Abstract
It has been assumed for a long time that the deep-water wind waves are a simple superimposition of independent elementary harmonics. The statistical Gaussian model based upon this assumption has been used for description of deep water sea surface oscillations. In the late 1950’s and the beginning of 1960’s, nonlinear hydrodynamical models of the deep water waves appeared (Tick 1959; Phillips 1960, 1961; Hasselmann 1962). These models proved the transmission of energy between the elementary harmonics. The nonlinear hydrodynamic models have been confirmed in investigations (statistical and spectral analysis) carried out all over the world, especially in the last 10 years.
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Bitner-Gregersen, E.M. (1983). Nonlinear Effects of Statistical Distribution of Deep Water Waves. In: Sündermann, J., Lenz, W. (eds) North Sea Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68838-6_18
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