Application of phase decomposition to the analysis of random time series from wave basin tests

Adcock, Thomas A.A. and Feng, Xingya and Tang, Tianning and Bremer, Ton S. Van den and Day, Sandy and Dai, Saishuai and Li, Ye and Lin, Zhiliang and Xu, Wentao and Taylor, Paul H. (2019) Application of phase decomposition to the analysis of random time series from wave basin tests. In: 38th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering, 2019-06-09 - 2019-06-14, Scottish Event Campus.

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Abstract

Many ocean engineering problems involve bound harmonics which are slaved to some underlying assumed close to linear timeseries. When analysing signals we often want to remove the bound harmonics so as to “linearise” the data or to extract individual bound harmonic components so that they may be studied. For even moderately broad banded systems filtering in the frequency domain is not sufficient to separate components as they overlap in frequency. One way to overcome this difficulty is to use input signals with the same linear envelope but with different phases and then use simple addition and subtraction of the resulting signals to extract different harmonics. This approach has been established for the analysis of wave groups. In this paper we examine whether this approach can be used on random time series as well. We analyse random wave time series of wave elevation from the towing tank in Shanghai Jiao Tong University and force measurements on a cylinder taken in the Kelvin tank at the University of Strathclyde.

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