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Rogue wave analysis supports investigation of the El Faro sinking.»
Not exact matches
A new
analysis done to support the investigation into the 2015 sinking of the El Faro cargo ship has calculated the likelihood of a massive
rogue wave during Hurricane Joaquin in October of that year — and demonstrated a new technique for evaluating the probability of
rogue waves over space and time.
This is the basis of Fourier
analysis, the mathematical technique at the heart of
rogue -
wave research, in which complicated
wave patterns are broken down into their constituent parts.
A comparative
analysis of
rogue waves in different physical systems comes to the surprising conclusion that these rare events are not completely unpredictable.
Based on an
analysis of three
rogue waves observed at different oil platforms in the North Sea over the course of a decade, the research was scheduled to be reported June 21 in the journal Scientific Reports.