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 2 Subject Index :
A
Absorbers for wave energy 413 425
omnidirectional, 404, 405, 415
beam-sea, 404, 406
head-sea, 406, 419
oscillating water column, 405
point, 405
three-dimensional, 412
Added inertia, 224
Added mass, 371, 376, 446
coefficients, 409
matrix, 359
Addition theorem, 44
Airy's equation, 80
Airy's function, 34
Airy's long-wave theory, 103
Amplification factor, 223, 234, 236, 248, 253, 258
Amplitude, 8, 12, 57, 71, 78, 90, 280, 286
Analytic function, 214, 263
Anderson localization, 323
Angle of incidence, 145, 225
Angular displacement, 341
Angular momentum, 346, 351, 354
Apparent mass, 446
Archimedes' law, 344
Asymptotic approximations, 141
Averaged Lagrangian, 109
B
Bandwidth, 197
Beam sea absorbers, 404, 406
Bernoulli's equation, 6, 10, 16, 126, 280, 343, 438
Bessel function, 42, 200
Bessho Newman relation, 384 386
Bottom, 465 489
boundary layer, 465, 475
friction, 489
stress, 484
Bound states, 157
Boundary layer, 10, 11, 81, 338, 459, 468, 473, 479, 487
coordinate, 468, 473
laminar, 455
thickness, 476
Boussinesq equations, 38
Bragg resonance, 309, 312, 319, 323, 333
Bragg scattering, 307
Branch cut, 263
Branch point, 262
Breakwater, 212, 258, 337
Buoyancy force, 355
Buoyancy torque, 349, 350
C
Calculus of variations, 72
Capillary waves, 21
Capillary gravity Waves, 39
Capture width, 418
Carrier frequency, 265
Cauchy's residue theorem, 27, 53, 265, 266, 274
Cauchy-Poisson Problem, 23, 39, 444
Caustic, 76, 79, 80, 81, 87
Center of buoyancy, 347
Center of mass, 346, 347
Center of rotation, 341
Circular
basin, 95, 207, 473
depth contours, 82
island, 92
sill, 177
Coherent wave, 332
Comformal mapping, 137, 285
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