Ocean Wave Mechanics : Applications in Marine Structures.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 GENERAL -- 1.2 STRUCTURES IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT -- 1.2.1 Coastal Structures -- Seawalls -- Groins -- Breakwaters -- Revetment -- 1.2.2 Port Structures -- 1.2.3 Offshore Structures -- Exploration Platforms -- Production Platforms -- 1.3 ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS -- 1.3.1 General -- 1.3.2 Wind -- 1.3.3 Waves -- General -- Wave Generation -- Importance of wave characteristics -- 1.3.4 Tides General -- General -- Types of Tides -- Tide Tables -- Tides along the Indian coast -- 1.3.5 Currents -- 1.3.6 Nearshore currents -- 1.4 STORM TIDES, TIDAL BORES, TSUNAMIS AND SEICHES -- 1.4.1. Storm surge -- 1.4.2 Tidal bores -- 1.4.3 Tsunamis -- 1.4.4 Seiche -- CHAPTER 2: BASIC FLUID MECHANICS -- 2.1 INTRODUCTION -- Ideal Fluids -- Real or Practical Fluids -- 2.2 TYPES OF FLOW -- Steady flow -- Unsteady Flow -- Uniform Flow -- Non-uniform Flow -- Rotational Flow -- Irrotational Flow -- Laminar Flow -- Turbulent Flow -- 2.3 CONTINUITY EQUATION CONSERVATION OF MASS -- 2.4 FORCES ACTING ON FLUIDS IN MOTION -- 2.5 EULER'S EQUATION OF MOTION -- 2.6 PATHLINES AND STREAMLINES -- 2.7 VELOCITY POTENTIAL -- 2.8 STREAM FUNCTION -- 2.9 BERNOULLI EQUATION -- CHAPTER 3: BASICS OF WAVE MOTION -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 SMALL AMPLITUDE WAVE THEORY -- General -- Derivation for velocity potential -- Boundary conditions -- Solution to the Laplace equation -- Determination of the constants -- 3.3 DISPERSION RELATIONSHIP -- 3.4 CELERITY IN DIFFERENT WATER DEPTH CONDITIONS -- Deep water conditions -- Shallow water conditions -- Relationship between d/L and d/Lo -- Approximate Solutions to the Dispersion Equation -- 3.5 LOCAL FLUID PARTICLE VELOCITIES AND ACCELARATIONS UNDER PROGRESSIVE WAVES -- 3.6 WATER PARTICLE DISPLACEMENT UNDER PROGRESSIVE WAVES.

Shallow water condition -- Deep water condition -- 3.7 PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION UNDER PROGRESSIVE WAVES -- 3.8 GROUP CELERITY -- 3.9 WAVE ENERGY -- Potential Energy -- Kinetic Energy -- 3.10 WAVE POWER -- 3.11 MASS TRANSPORT VELOCITY -- WORKED EXAMPLES -- CHAPTER 4: WAVE DEFORMATION -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2. DIFFERENT ZONES BASED ON BEHAVIOR OF OCEAN WAVES -- 4.3 SHOALING -- 4.4 WAVE REFRACTION -- 4.5 WAVE DIFFRACTION -- Importance of calculation of diffraction effects -- 4.6 COMBINED REFRACTION AND DIFFRACTION -- 4.7 BREAKING OF WAVES -- 4.7.1 Breaking Criteria -- 4.7.2 Wave height at the breaking point -- 4.7.3 Types of Breakers -- 4.8 WAVE REFLECTION -- 4.9 WAVES ON CURRENTS -- WORKED EXAMPLES -- CHAPTER 5: FINITE AMPLITUDE WAVE THEORIES -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 CLASSIFICATION OF FINITE AMPLITUDE WAVE THEORIES -- 5.2.1 Stoke's Wave Theories -- Particle kinematics -- Subsurface pressure -- 5.2.2 Solitary Wave Theory -- 5.2.3 Cnoidal Wave Theory -- 5.2.4 Stream Function Theory -- WORKED EXAMPLES -- CHAPTER 6: DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF RANDOM WAVES -- 6.1 GENERATION OF OCEAN WAVES -- 6.2 COLLECTION OF WAVE DATA -- 6.3 ANALYSIS OF OCEAN WAVES -- 6.3.1 General -- 6.3.2 Sea waves as stationary ergodic processes -- 6.4 DETAILED ANALYSIS -- 6.4.1 General -- 6.4.2 Statistical Procedure -- Short-term wave statistics -- 6.4.3. Wave - Wave Spectrum Relationship -- 6.4.4. Spectral Method -- Through Autocorrelation -- Through Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) method -- 6.5. PRESENTATION OF WAVE CHARACTERISTICS -- 6.6. OCEAN WAVE PREDICTION MODELS -- 6.6.1. Pierson-Moskowitz Spectrum -- 6.6.2. SMB Wave Prediction Curves -- 6.6.3. SPM: Deep-Water Wave Prediction -- 6.7 STANDARD REPRESENTATION OF WAVE SPECTRA -- Pierson-Moskowitz (P-M) spectrum -- Bretschneider spectrum -- ISSC spectrum -- ITTC spectrum -- JONSWAP spectrum -- Scott spectrum.

Ochi-Hubble spectrum -- 6.8 SIMULATION OF TIME SERIES -- 6.8.1 Simulation of Waves with Pre-defined Spectral Characteristics -- 6.8.2 Simulation of Water Particle Kinematics -- 6.9 DIRECTIONAL WAVES -- 6.9.1 General -- 6.9.2 Simulation of Directional Waves -- 6.9.3 Directional Spreading Functions -- (a) Circular normal distribution of Mobarek (1965) and Fan (1968) -- (b) Wrapped-around Gaussian model of Borgman (1969) -- (c) A finite Fourier series -- (d) Cosine squared -- (e) Mitsuyasu type -- (f) Spreading function of Goda and Suzuki (1975) -- 6.9.4 Particle Kinematics -- 6.9.5 Analysis of Directional Wave Fields -- The Fourier Series Approach -- Maximum Likelihood Method -- Maximum Entropy Method -- 6.9.6 Directional Parameters -- WORKED EXAMPLES -- CHAPTER 7: WAVE LOADS ON STRUCTURES -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 VARIOUS FORCE REGIMES -- 7.3 WAVE FORCES ON SLENDER STRUCTURES -- 7.3.1 Fixed Cylinder in Waves -- Current Design Criteria -- Ratio between FD and FI -- 7.3.2 Flexible Cylinders in Waves -- 7.3.3 Wave forces on an Inclined Cylinder -- 7.3.4 Submerged Cylinders -- 7.4 FROUDE-KRYLOV FORCES -- 7.5 LINEAR DIFFRACTION PROBLEM -- 7.5.1 Linear Diffraction Theory for Wave Forces -- For Circular Cylinder -- For noncircular caissons -- Square Caisson -- 7.6 WAVE SLAMMING -- 7.7 WAVE FORCES ON WALLS AND RUBBLE MOUND STRUCTURES -- 7.7.1 Rubble Mound Structures -- 7.7.2 Vertical Walls -- 7.8 RANDOM WAVE FORCES -- 7.8.1 General -- 7.8.2 Probabilistic Approach -- 7.8.3 Spectral Density of Force -- 7.8.4 Wave Forces on Large Bodies -- 7.8.5 Effect of Current on Sη -- WORKED EXAMPLES -- CHAPTER 8: OCEAN WAVE ENERGY -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- 8.2 OCEAN ENERGY -- 8.3 WAVE ENERGY POTENTIAL -- 8.4 WAVE ENERGY MAP FOR INDIA -- 8.5 WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION -- 8.5.1 Levels of Harnessing of Wave Energy -- 8.5.2 Classification of Wave Energy Converters.

8.5.3 Conversion Process -- 8.6 WAVE ENERGY DEVICES -- 8.6.1 Types -- 8.6.2 Factors to be considered for wave energy devices -- 8.7 OWC LINKED TO BREAKWATERS -- APPENDIX A -- EXPRESSIONS FOR STOKES FIFTH ORDER THEORY -- APPENDIX B -- BASICS OF STATISTICS AND RANDOM PROCESS -- CLASSIFICATION OF RANDOM DATA -- CROSS CORRELATION FUNCTION RXY(τ) -- CROSS SPECTRUM -- COHERENCE FUNCTION -- APPENDIX C -- SELECTED REFERENCES AND BIBILIOGRAPHY.

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