Abstract: A theoretical model is presented for the probability distribution of wave crest amplitudes in severe seas states with wave breaking. As the severity of a sea state increases, nonlinearities ...

Abstract: Laboratory simulations of extreme random seas reveal that high wave crests occur more frequently than predicted by the Rayleigh distribution. In this paper, a theory is presented to account for ...

Abstract: Markov description of wave-crest statistics is considered for the case of severe random seas where Stokes nonlinearities require crests to rise higher than troughs fall. Of interest are the ...

Abstract: Results of laboratory model tests are used to assess the accuracy of the American Petroleum Institute (API) method of predicting wave-current loading on a shallow-water production caisson in extreme random waves. Model ...