Breaking of highly energetic waves

Project Information

HIGHWAVE

Grant agreement ID: 833125

DOI

10.3030/833125

Project closed

EC signature date 9 April 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 946,00

EU contribution

€ 2 499 946,00

Coordinated by

ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS-SACLAY
France

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (26)

Effect of Real-World Perturbations on Wave Breaking due to a Sharp-Crested Superharmonic Instability

Author(s): A. Mansar, M. R. Turner, T. J. Bridges, F. Dias
Published in: Water Waves, Issue 7, 2025, Page(s) 159-198, ISSN 2523-367X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s42286-025-00116-7

Wave scattering by a three-dimensional submerged horizontal rectangular plate in a channel: experiments and numerical computations

Author(s): T. Geng; H. Liu; Q. Wang; F. Dias
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 935, 2022, ISSN 1469-7645
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2022.7

Ocean Wave Directional Distribution from GPS Buoy Observations off the West Coast of Ireland: Assessment of a Wavelet-Based Method

Author(s): Daniel Peláez-Zapata, Vikram Pakrashi, Frédéric Dias
Published in: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Issue 41, 2024, Page(s) 749-765, ISSN 0739-0572
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/jtech-d-23-0058.1

Storm Waves May Be the Source of Some “Tsunami” Coastal Boulder Deposits

Author(s): Andrew B. Kennedy, Rónadh Cox, Frédéric Dias
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, Issue 48/11, 2021, ISSN 0094-8276
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
DOI: 10.1029/2020gl090775

On the measurement of the dispersion relation by a radar and the implication on the current retrieval

Author(s): Støle-Hentschel, Susanne; Smeltzer, Benjamin Keeler; Toledo, Yaron
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 0196-2892
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.12181

A numerical investigation into the interaction between rain and water waves

Author(s): Claire Bergin, Wouter Mostert, Vikram Pakrashi, Frederic Dias
Published in: Computers & Fluids, Issue 289, 2025, Page(s) 106534, ISSN 0045-7930
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2024.106534

Influence of Computed Wave Spectra on Statistical Wave Properties

Author(s): Tatjana Kokina, Frederic Dias
Published in: Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Issue 8/12, 2020, Page(s) 1023, ISSN 2077-1312
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jmse8121023

Dynamics of Bubble Plumes Produced by Breaking Waves

Author(s): Daniel Peláez-Zapata, Vikram Pakrashi, Frédéric Dias
Published in: Journal of Physical Oceanography, Issue 54, 2024, Page(s) 2059-2071, ISSN 0022-3670
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-23-0261.1

Storm-driven coastal boulder transport over two winter storm seasons on Inishmaan, Ireland

Author(s): Hannah R. Spero, Melissa A. Berke, Jacob Berryhill, Mary C. Bourke, Niamh D. Cullen, Frederic Dias, Isabel Garcia, James G. Herterich, Michael J. Starek, Mariana Silva, Joannes J. Westerink, Andrew B. Kennedy
Published in: Geomorphology, Issue 494, 2026, Page(s) 110105, ISSN 0169-555X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.110105

Solitary-wave loads on a three-dimensional submerged horizontal plate: Numerical computations and comparison with experiments

Author(s): Tian Geng, Hua Liu, Frederic Dias
Published in: Physics of Fluids, Issue 33/3, 2021, Page(s) 037129, ISSN 1070-6631
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0043912

Sea Surface Temperature and Directional Wave Spectra During the 2023 Marine Heatwave in the North Atlantic

Author(s): Daniel Peláez-Zapata, Brian Ward, Frédéric Dias
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-06268-y

Improving the sea state forecasts by using local wave observations and the ensembleBMA software

Author(s): Tatjana Kokina, Daniel Santiago Peláez-Zapata, Thomas Brendan Murphy, Frédéric Dias
Published in: Environmental Data Science, 2023, ISSN 2634-4602
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/eds.2023.31

Three-dimensional wave breaking

Author(s): M. L. McAllister, S. Draycott, R. Calvert, T. Davey, F. Dias, T. S. van den Bremer
Published in: Nature, Issue 633, 2024, Page(s) 601-607, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07886-z

The Peregrine Breather on the Zero-Background Limit as the Two-Soliton Degenerate Solution: An Experimental Study

Author(s): Amin Chabchoub, Alexey Slunyaev, Norbert Hoffmann, Frederic Dias, Bertrand Kibler, Goëry Genty, John M. Dudley, Nail Akhmediev
Published in: Frontiers in Physics, Issue 9, 2021, ISSN 2296-424X
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2021.633549

A local model for the limiting configuration of interfacial solitary waves

Author(s): X. Guan, J.-M. Vanden-Broeck, Z. Wang, F. Dias
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 921, 2021, ISSN 0022-1120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2021.521

Microwave Propagation in Maritime Environments

Author(s): Arnaud Disant, Frederic Dias
Published in: Marine Technology Society Journal, Issue bimonthly, 2020, Page(s) 17-24, ISSN 0025-3324
Publisher: Marine Technology Society, Inc.

Experimental study on free-surface deformation and forces on a finite submerged plate induced by a solitary wave

Author(s): Qian Wang, Hua Liu, Yongliu Fang, Frederic Dias
Published in: Physics of Fluids, Issue 32/8, 2020, Page(s) 086601, ISSN 1070-6631
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0015903

Breaking-wave induced pressure and acceleration on a clifftop boulder

Author(s): James N. Steer; O. Kimmoun; F. Dias
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 929, 2021, ISSN 1469-7645
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2021.841

Ocean wave measurements for marine renewable energy applications

Author(s): Daniel Peláez-Zapata, Vikram Pakrashi, Frédéric Dias
Published in: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Issue 219, 2025, Page(s) 115828, ISSN 1364-0321
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2025.115828

Air/water interfacial waves with a droplet at the tip of their crest

Author(s): B. C. Nie; X. Guan; J.-M. Vanden-Broeck; F. Dias
Published in: Physics of Fluids, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1089-7666
Publisher: AIP
DOI: 10.1063/5.0131944

Pre-computation of image features for the classification of dynamic properties in breaking waves

Author(s): Ryan Smith; Frederic Dias; Gabriele Facciolo; Thomas Brendan Murphy
Published in: European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2023, ISSN 2279-7254
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/22797254.2022.2163707

Observations of Shoaling and Breaking Waves in Shallow Water With Different Coherent X-Band Radars

Author(s): Susanne Støle-Hentschel; Patricio A. Catalán; Michael StreßEr; Jochen Horstmann; Frédéric Dias
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024, ISSN 1558-0644
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2024.3373785

Advances in extracting current profiles from X-band radar images with a focus on retrieving subsurface current

Author(s): Joseph Anderson, Benjamin K. Smeltzer, Rotem Soffer, Yaron Toledo, Vika Grigorieva, Frédéric Dias, Susanne Støle-Hentschel
Published in: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Issue 149, 2026, Page(s) 105238, ISSN 1569-8432
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2026.105238

EWDM: A wavelet-based method for estimating directional spectra of ocean waves

Author(s): Daniel Peláez-Zapata, Frédéric Dias
Published in: Journal of Open Source Software, Issue 10, 2025, Page(s) 7942, ISSN 2475-9066
Publisher: Open Source Initiative
DOI: 10.21105/joss.07942

Meteotsunamis and other anomalous “tidal surge” events in Western Europe in Summer 2022

Author(s): E. Renzi, C. Bergin, T. Kokina, D. S. Pelaez-Zapata, D. Giles, F. Dias
Published in: Physics of Fluids, 2023, ISSN 1089-7666
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0139220

Achieving optimal locomotion using self-generated waves

Author(s): Daire O’Donovan, Miguel D. Bustamante, Olivier Devauchelle, Graham P. Benham
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Issue 1029, 2026, ISSN 0022-1120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2026.11133