Surface waves determination from pressure measurements at the seabed leads to an ill-posed inversion problem. For two-dimensional steady waves in irrotational motion, using elementary complex analysis, the problem can be solved exactly in an analytic implicit form. For practical purposes, the implicit relations must be solved iteratively. We show that simple fixed-point iterations converge, even for extreme waves with angular crests.
This video was produced by the SITE Research Center at New York University, as part of their talk series.
