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Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering - Vol. 21

WAVES AND WAVE FORCES ON COASTAL AND OCEAN STRUCTURES

by Robert T Hudspeth (Oregon State University, USA)

Table of Contents (169k)
Preface (313k)
Chapter 1: Introduction (135k)

This book focuses on: (1) the physics of the fundamental dynamics of fluids and of semi-immersed Lagrangian solid bodies that are responding to wave-induced loads; (2) the scaling of dimensional equations and boundary value problems in order to determine a small dimensionless parameter e that may be applied to linearize the equations and the boundary value problems so as to obtain a linear system; (3) the replacement of differential and integral calculus with algebraic equations that require only algebraic substitutions instead of differentiations and integrations; and (4) the importance of comparing numerical and analytical computations with data from laboratories and/or nature.


Contents:

  • Mathematical Preliminaries
  • Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics
  • Long-Crested, Linear Wave Theory (LWT)
  • Wavemaker Theories
  • Nonlinear Wave Theories
  • Deterministic Dynamics of Small Solid Bodies
  • Deterministic Dynamics of Large Solid Bodies
  • Real Ocean Waves


Readership: Graduate students and practitioners in ocean and coastal engineering.

952pp Pub. date: Apr 2006
ISBN 978-981-238-612-0
981-238-612-2
US$132 / £82


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