Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, New York : Elsevier, c1988
Descrizione fisica	538 p. ; 25 cm
Disciplina	627.98
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	ita
Record Nr.	UNINA-990000531020403321

Autore	Sundar V
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (287 pages)
Disciplina	627.98
Collana	Ane/Athena Bks.
Soggetto topico	Wave mechanics
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	9781119241676 9781119241652
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910795980103321

Autore	Chandrasekaran Srinivasan
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hoboken, New Jersey : , : West Sussex, England : , : Wiley : , : ASME Press, , [2020]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (253 pages)
Disciplina	627.98
Soggetto topico	Compliant platforms
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-119-66980-4 1-5231-3692-8 1-119-66979-0 1-119-66978-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910555008703321

Autore	Karimirad Madjid
Edizione	[1st ed. 2014.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (307 p.)
Disciplina	621.042 627.98
Soggetto topico	Renewable energy resources Ocean engineering Renewable and Green Energy Offshore Engineering
ISBN	3-319-12175-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction -- Wind turbines -- Fixed offshore wind turbines -- Floating offshore wind turbines -- Wave energy converters -- Combined wave and wind power devices -- Design aspects -- Wave and wind theories -- Aerodynamic and hydrodynamic loads -- Dynamic response analyses -- Stochastic analyses.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910299624903321

Autore	Liu Gengshen
Edizione	[1st ed. 2017.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (XVII, 280 p. 149 illus.)
Disciplina	627.98
Collana	Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
Soggetto topico	Ocean engineering Building—Superintendence Construction industry—Management Construction superintendence Mechanics Mechanics, Applied Buildings—Design and construction Building Construction Engineering, Architectural Offshore Engineering Construction Management Solid Mechanics Building Construction and Design
ISBN	981-10-3617-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Offshore Platform Topsides and Substructure -- Platform Integration and Stationing -- Floatover Technology -- Hideck Floatover Technology -- Unideck & Smartleg -- Catamaran Floatover -- Project Management & Planning -- Engineering Analysis and Model Test -- Operation Execution -- Evolution and New Source of Motivation.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910254316703321