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| Title: | PHASE INVERSION AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF HARMONIC STRUCTURE IN COASTAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTS | |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812701916_0083 | |
| Source: | COASTAL ENGINEERING 2004 (pp 1047-1059) | |
| Author(s): | ALISON C. HUNT
School of Engineering, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK PAUL H. TAYLOR Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, UK ALISTAIR G. L. BORTHWICK Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, UK PETER K. STANSBY School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, P O Box 88, Sackville St., Manchester M60 1QD, UK TONG FENG School of Aeronautical & Automotive Eng. and Systems, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK |
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| Abstract: | Much of the experimental work in coastal engineering makes use of random waves. However, in the analysis of such experiments the phase in the evolution of the wave system is not usually regarded as very important. The results are usually analysed either in terms of individual wave statistics or overall power spectral density. In this paper we demonstrate that phase does contain valuable information on the physics of wave interactions with coastal features and that the deliberate manipulation of phase in physical experiments can be a useful and powerful approach. | |
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