| Description |
1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Wave Mechanics and Wave Loads on Marine Structures; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Symbols; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Chapter 1 -- Wave Mechanics: Basic Concepts; 1.1 THE SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS; 1.2 INTRODUCTION TO WAVE MECHANICS; 1.3 STOKES'' THEORY TO THE FIRST ORDER; 1.4 STOKES'' THEORY TO THE SECOND ORDER; 1.5 WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION; 1.6 PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON THREE-DIMENSIONAL WAVES; 1.7 WAVE REFLECTION; 1.8 WAVE DIFFRACTION; 1.9 ENERGY FLUX AND WAVE ENERGY; 1.10 THE GROUP VELOCITY; 1.11 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES |
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Chapter 2 -- Wave Transformation near Coasts2.1 REFRACTION WITH STRAIGHT CONTOUR LINES; 2.2 REFRACTION WITH ARBITRARY CONTOUR LINES; 2.3 WAVE-CURRENT INTERACTION IN SOME STRAITS; 2.4 WORKED EXAMPLE; 2.5 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3 -- Random Wind-Generated Waves: Basic Concepts; 3.1 SEA STATE, SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT, SPECTRUM, AUTOCOVARIANCE; 3.2 THE CONCEPT OF "VERY NARROW SPECTRUM"; 3.3 BANDWIDTH AND NARROW-BANDEDNESS PARAMETERS; 3.4 CHARACTERISTIC SPECTRA OF WIND SEAS; 3.5 HOW TO OBTAIN THE FREQUENCY SPECTRUM; 3.6 WAVE RECORD ANALYSIS; 3.7 SMALL-SCALE FIELD EXPERIMENTS; 3.8 CONCLUSION |
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5.2 THE "EQUIVALENT TRIANGULAR STORM"5.3 RETURN PERIOD AND AVERAGE PERSISTENCE; 5.4 THE ENCOUNTER PROBABILITY OF A SEA STORM WITH SOME GIVEN CHARACTERISTICS; 5.5 THE DESIGN SEA STATE FOR GIVEN LIFETIME AND ENCOUNTER PROBABILITY; 5.6 ESTIMATE OF THE LARGEST WAVE HEIGHT IN THE LIFETIME; 5.7 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 6 -- Space-Time Theory of Sea States; 6.1 WAVE FIELD IN THE OPEN SEA; 6.2 MAXIMUM EXPECTED WAVE HEIGHT AT A GIVEN ARRAY OF POINTS IN THE DESIGN SEA STATE; 6.3 DIRECTIONAL SPECTRUM: DEFINITION AND CHARACTERISTIC SHAPE; 6.4 CLASSIC APPROACH: OBTAINING THE DIRECTIONAL DISTRIBUTION |
| Summary |
Wave Mechanics and Wave Loads on Marine Structures provides a new perspective on the calculation of wave forces on ocean structures, unifying the deterministic and probabilistic approaches to wave theory and combining the methods used in field and experimental measurement. Presenting his quasi-determinism (QD) theory and approach of using small-scale field experiments (SSFEs), author Paolo Boccotti simplifies the findings and techniques honed in his ground-breaking work to provide engineers and researchers with practical new methods of analysis. Including numerous worked examples and case |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 9, 2014) |
| Subject |
Ships -- Hydrodynamics -- Mathematical models
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Ocean engineering.
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Wave mechanics.
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Ocean engineering.
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Ships -- Hydrodynamics -- Mathematical models.
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Wave mechanics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780128004135 |
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0128004134 |
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012800343X |
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9780128003435 |
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