Theory And Applications Of Ocean Surface Waves
Presenting theoretical topics on ocean wave dynamics, this text includes basic principles and applications in coastal and offshore engineering as well as coastal oceanography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Theory And Applications Of Ocean Surface Waves
Part 1 Subject Index :
A
Acoustic streaming, 509
Action variable, 651
Adams-Bashfbrth-Moulton integrator, 985
Air cushion, 1026
Air leakage, 1033
Air pocket pressure, 1026
Airy's Theory, 616
Algorithm, 982
Aliasing errors, 897, 899
Analytic continuation, 891, 897
Angle variable, 651
Antinodes, 526
Artificial damping layer, 977
Axisymmetric
flow, 985, 1015
pressure distribution, 918
standing waves, 966
Azimuthal direction, 962
Azimuthal wavenumber, 965
B
Back-scattered synthetic-aperture radar signals, 917
Basis function, 894
Beat, 708
Benjamin-Feir Instability, 760 767, 840, 866, 867, 869, 871
Bernoulli's equation, 888, 945
Bessel function, 962
Bifurcation diagram of edge-wave resonance, 652
Body submergence, 953
Bottom friction, 580, 583
Bottom
ripples, 930
topography, 886, 898
undulations, 937
Bound long wave, 566, 568
Bound states, 671
Boundary
elements, 977
layers, 532
discretization, 885
-integral equation, 973, 1016
-value problem, 892, 903, 957, 973
Boussinesq equations, 617, 722
Bragg
conditions, 930
reflection, 934
resonance, 931, 934, 938
scattering, 930
Breaker, 548
collapsing, 572
plunging, 572
spilling, 572
Breaking wave, 570, 886,
distribution, 972
impact, 1023, 1024
Broad-banded waves, 839 852
C
Cauchy's
principal value, 975
problem, 973
integral formulation, 974, 989
theorem, 974
Chaotic motion, 955
Characteristics, 622
Chebyshev modes, 962
Chebyshev polynomial, 895, 947, 959
Class III Bragg resonance, 938
Cnoidal waves, 658
Collapsing breaker, 572
Collocation, 893, 899, 960
Complex potential, 975
Compression waves, 626
Computation cost, 898
Computational effort, 896
Conformal mapping, 947, 974
Conical island, 602, 603, 605, 607
Constant panel method, 978
Courant condition, 900, 905
Courant number, 985, 999
Crescent
pattern, 1009
waves, 886, 1007
Cubic convergence, 983
Cubic...
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