Hilbert-Huang Transform in Engineering

Norden E. Huang, Nii O. Attoh-Okine

"This is a book that exclusively deals with the HHT. Its main purpose is to provide the reader with an overview of the HHT without pursuing thorough mathematical details. Further, it attempts to demonstrate the versatility of the method by including numerous applications of the HHT in various engineering fields including ocean, environmental, seismic, and structural engineering. The book is organized into 13 chapters, each one written by different authors in a strict technical paper format … Overall, the book provides a balanced presentation of the HHT from various points of view depending on the application of interest and demonstrates the versatility and applicability of this numerical technique in various technical fields. It can be a valuable reference text for researchers and practitioners in the plethora of engineering fields that deal with the processing of nonstationary data sets and focus on extracting physically meaningful information while capturing the evolution of the corresponding processes in time or space."-Pol Spanos (Rice University), Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, vol. 132, no. 5, Sept./Oct. 2006

• Chapter 1 Introduction to Hilbert-Huang Transform and Some Recent Developments, Chapter 2 Carrier and Riding Wave Structure of Rogue Waves, Chapter 3 Applications of Hilbert-Huang Transform to Ocean-Atmosphere Remote Sensing Research, Chapter 4 A Comparison of the Energy Flux Computation of Shoaling Waves Using Hilbert and Wavelet Spectral Analysis Techniques, Chapter 5 An Application of HHT Method to Nearshore Sea Waves, Chapter 6 Transient Signal Detection Using the Empirical Mode Decomposition, Chapter 7 Coherent Structures Analysis in Turbulent Open Channel Flow Using Hilbert-Huang and Wavelets Transforms, Chapter 8 An HHT-Based Approach to Quantify Nonlinear Soil Amplification and Damping, Chapter 9 Simulation of Nonstationary Random Processes Using Instantaneous Frequency and Amplitude from Hilbert-Huang Transform, Chapter 10 Comparison of Hilbert-Huang, Wavelet, and Fourier Transforms for Selected Applications, Chapter 11 The Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Simulations by the Hilbert Huang Transform, Chapter 12 Decomposition of Wave Groups with EMD Method, Chapter 13 Perspectives on the Theory and Practices of the Hilbert-Huang Transform, Index