WAVES AND WAVE FORCES ON COASTAL AND OCEAN STRUCTURES
by Robert T Hudspeth (Oregon State University, USA)
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
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Readership: Graduate students and practitioners in ocean and coastal
engineering.
