- Swell
- Waves formed offshore by the wind that travel far from where they were born.
- Significant height (Hs)
- Mean of the highest third of the waves; close to the height estimated by eye.
- Period (T)
- Time between two successive crests.
- Tidal range
- Height difference between high water and the following low water.
- Spring and neap tides
- Tides of large and small range, around full and new moon and around the quarters.
- Froude scaling
- Rule linking a model to the real machine: at 1:5, lengths are divided by 5 and times by √5.
- FEM
- Finite element method, for the strength of parts.
- SPH
- Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, to simulate water and floating bodies.
- Wave basin
- Test basin with a wavemaker that reproduces real waves at reduced scale.
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