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Ocean Wave Simulation Based on Wind Field

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  • Zhongyi Li
  • Hao Wang

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Ocean wave simulation has a wide range of applications in movies, video games and training systems. Wind force is the main energy resource for generating ocean waves, which are the result of the interaction between wind and the ocean surface. While numerous methods to handle simulating oceans and other fluid phenomena have undergone rapid development during the past years in the field of computer graphic, few of them consider to construct ocean surface height field from the perspective of wind force driving ocean waves. We introduce wind force to the construction of the ocean surface height field through applying wind field data and wind-driven wave particles. Continual and realistic ocean waves result from the overlap of wind-driven wave particles, and a strategy was proposed to control these discrete wave particles and simulate an endless ocean surface. The results showed that the new method is capable of obtaining a realistic ocean scene under the influence of wind fields at real time rates.

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  • Zhongyi Li & Hao Wang, 2016. "Ocean Wave Simulation Based on Wind Field," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(1), pages 1-15, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0147123
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147123
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