Oceans, Aberdeen, Scottland, 2007

Comparison of sea state statistics between a phenomenological model and field data

Abstract: This paper describes IPAS (Interactive Phenomenological Animation of the Sea), a method for numerical interactive phenomenological animation of the sea, and it aims to validate this method by confrontation with field data. As IPAS is a phenomenological animation, it does not involve computation of hydrodynamic equations on a mesh or a grid of points. Instead, autonomous agents, modeling oceanographic phenomenons, are combined and animated using enaction–based multi–agents simulation. A large number of such simulations has been carried out, and the resulting statistics are compared to acommonly used theoretical model, showing the ability of IPAS to represent actual sea state characteristics.