A note on particle trajectories in the highest wave
- 1 October 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Vol. 111 (-1), 491-495
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112081002474
Abstract
The series expansion procedure of Michel (1893) is used to calculate the highest wave solution and corresponding particle trajectories. The results are compared with those obtained by Longuet-Higgins (1979) using the ‘hexagon’ approximation for the highest deep-water wave. Reasonable agreement is found between the two sets of results.Keywords
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