Wind Waves and Swell

Oral

1366 - A Predictive Fuzzy Logic Model To Bimodal Wave Partitioning In Welsh Coastline

Presenting Author(s)

• SO

  Stephen Orimoloye

  Swansea University

Additional Author #1(s)

• DR

  Dominic Reeve

  Swansea University

Additional Author #2(s)

• HK

  Harshinie Karunarathna

  Swansea University

Bimodal seas are characterised by the combination of swell and locally generated wind energy. Understanding the percentage of the swell component and the wind component partitioned from the energy of a Wave System is important in coastal defense design and management. The South Wales and southwest England wave climate is mostly characterised by bimodal wave spectra because they are directly facing the North Atlantic Ocean. In this paper, we describe the application of fuzzy logic to develop an efficient wave partitioning system for bimodal wave energy separation to characterise the percentage of swell and wind waves in the sea state.