TY - JOUR ID - 19 TI - Investigation and Prediction of Caspian Sea Significant Wave Height Using Chaos Theory JO - Amirkabir Journal of Civil Engineering JA - CEEJ LA - en SN - 2588-297X AU - Lotfollahi Yaghin, Mohammad Ali AU - Lashte Neshaei, Mir Ahmad AU - Ghorbani, Mohammad Ali AU - Lorian, Morteza Beyk AD - Professor, Civil Engineering Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran AD - Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Guilan University, Rasht, Iran AD - Associate Professor, Water Engineering Department, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran AD - Ph.D. Candidate, Civil Engineering Faculty, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 45 IS - 1 SP - 97 EP - 105 KW - Significant Wave Height KW - Local Prediction KW - Caspian Sea KW - Chaos Theory DO - 10.22060/ceej.2013.19 N2 - Significant wave height is mean of one third of the largest wave heights in a certain marine condition. Investigation and prediction of the significant wave height have been recently considered in marine system analysis including loadings over marine structures and sediment transport for designing, operation and marine researches. The capability of chaos theory in engineering particularly marine engineering has been gaining considerable interest in recent times. In this research, dynamic characteristics of the significant wave height time series in Caspian Sea at Anzali entrance are considered and the prediction has been performed using ideas gained from chaos theory. To reconstruct phase space, the time delay and embedding dimension are needed and for this purpose, autocorrelation function and algorithm of false nearest neighbors are used. Correlation dimension method is applied for investigating chaotic behavior of the significant wave height, which is the resultant of correlation dimensions, expresses chaotic behavior in the time series. Local prediction algorithm is used for time series prediction and results illustrate good and acceptable accuracy of chaos theory in quantitative prediction of seas significant wave height. UR - https://ceej.aut.ac.ir/article_19.html L1 - https://ceej.aut.ac.ir/article_19_a8f556f6e259d40f89b9e726f12ab422.pdf ER -