Waves and Wave Forces on Coastal &.(V21) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789812386120)

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 ε 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.

Author: Robert T. Hudspeth
ISBN-10: 9812386122
ISBN-13: 9789812386120
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2006
Pages: 952
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.31lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.28w x 2.04d