Flexural Gravity Waves: The Mathematical Theory and Applications [Hardcover]

0. Front Matter. Section I. 1.?Introduction. Section II. 2.?Flexural Gravity Waves: An Introduction.?3.?Wave ice interaction problems in shallow water.?4.?Flexural gravity wave scattering in homogeneous fluid.?5.?Flexural gravity waves in a stratified fluid.?6.?Wave interaction with flexible submerged plate.?7.?Ocean floor and water compressibility.?8.?Waves due to a moving source.?9.?Modulation effects in flexural-gravity waves.?10.?Frequency downshifting.?11.?Rossby waves in the ocean covered by compressed ice.?12.?Closure.?Appendix A: Gravity wavemaker theory.?Appendix B: Glossary.?Appendix C: Acknowledgements.?Appendix D: References.

This monograph describes mathematical techniques for various aspects of flexural gravity wave propagation, pertinent to ocean engineering. It focuses on frontier problems in hydroelasticity including blocking dynamics of flexural gravity waves in both homogeneous and stratified fluids.

T Sahoo has expertise in both the analytic and numerical methods for dealing with a wide variety of problems in Hydroelasticity and Coastal hydrodynamics arising in Ocean Engineering. After his doctoral research based on Fourier analysis and allied methods for scattering and radiation of water waves, he has made a seminal contribution by pursuing interdisciplinary research on wave-structure interaction problems arising in ocean engineering during the last 28 years. His research contributions to mathematical and physical science are reflected in his 260 publications in journals and conference proceedings and a single-authored monograph published by CRC press. Moreover, he has contributed significantly to various outreach programmes to promote marine hydrodynamics in India, in addition to having more than 24 years of teaching and research experience at IIT Kharagpur.

MH Meylan is an expert in wave scattering in both the time and frequency domains. Much olcx