Synopses & Reviews
Waves and Nonlinear Processes in Hydrodynamics contains thirty-one papers by international experts in hydrodynamics, based on talks at a symposium held in honour of Professor Enok Palm on his 70th birthday. The volume begins with two review papers on the history of hydrodynamic research at the University of Oslo and on engineering applications of hydrodynamics in the offshore industry. It continues with recent developments in marine hydrodynamics, nonlinear wave-diffraction, wave drift damping, nonlinear wave theory, breaking of waves, effect of surface tension on wave motion, nonlinear stability, thermal convection, turbulence, stratified flows, particle drift and dispersion, self-organization, damping of waves in kelp forests and ocean modelling.
This edited volume will be valuable reading for researchers, engineers and students interested in hydrodynamics and its many different applications.
Review
`This exquisitely produced 402-page book ... The editors have been able to persuade many authoritative engineers, scientists, and distinguished researchers ... to contribute ... This book radiates the warmth and the affection of its authors for Enok Palm as a teacher, scientist, and mentor. It is also a gift to fluid dynamists with an intellectual interest in waves and nonlinear processes in hydrodynamics. It is highly recommended for libraries and for doctoral students in search of mountains to climb, oceans to cross, and new frontiers to conquer.' Turgut Sarpkaya in AIAA Journal, 35:6 (1997)
Review
`This exquisitely produced 402-page book ... The editors have been able to persuade many authoritative engineers, scientists, and distinguished researchers ... to contribute ... This book radiates the warmth and the affection of its authors for Enok Palm as a teacher, scientist, and mentor. It is also a gift to fluid dynamists with an intellectual interest in waves and nonlinear processes in hydrodynamics. It is highly recommended for libraries and for doctoral students in search of mountains to climb, oceans to cross, and new frontiers to conquer.'
Turgut Sarpkaya in AIAA Journal, 35:6 (1997)
Synopsis
In December 1994 Professor Enok Palm celebrated his 70th birthday and retired after more than forty years of service at the University of Oslo. In view of his outstanding achievements as teacher and scientist a symposium entitled "Waves and Nonlinear Processes in Hydrodynamics" was held in his honour from the 17th to the 19th November 1994 in the locations of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo. The topics of the symposium were chosen to cover Enok's broad range of scientific work, interests and accomplishments: Marine hydrodynamics, nonlinear wave theory, nonlinear stability, thermal convection and geophys- ical fluid dynamics, starting with Enok's present activity, ending with the field where he began his career. This order was followed in the symposium program. The symposium had two opening lectures. The first looked back on the history of hydrodynamic research at the University of Oslo. The second focused on applications of hydrodynamics in the offshore industry today.
Synopsis
Waves and Nonlinear Processes in Hydrodynamics contains thirty-one papers by international experts in hydrodynamics, based on talks at a symposium held in honour of Professor Enok Palm on his 70th birthday. The volume begins with two review papers on the history of hydrodynamic research at the University of Oslo and on engineering applications of hydrodynamics in the offshore industry. It continues with recent developments in marine hydrodynamics, nonlinear wave-diffraction, wave drift damping, nonlinear wave theory, breaking of waves, effect of surface tension on wave motion, nonlinear stability, thermal convection, turbulence, stratified flows, particle drift and dispersion, self-organization, damping of waves in kelp forests and ocean modelling. This edited volume will be valuable reading for researchers, engineers and students interested in hydrodynamics and its many different applications.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Part I: Review Articles. A Brief Historical Account of Hydrodynamic Research at the University of Oslo;
A. Eliassen. Hydrodynamics in Industry. Some Examples with Special Emphasis on Marine Applications;
F.G. Nielsen. Part II: Marine Hydrodynamics. Two Fragments of a Method for Fully Nonlinear Simulations of Water Waves;
X. Cai, E. Mehlum. On the Motion of a Rigid Body in Non-Uniform Flows;
A.R. Galper, T. Miloh. Interaction between Waves and Slowly Rotating Floating Bodies;
J. Grue. Experiences from Comparing Theory with Environmental and Platform Data;
T. Marthinsen. Nonlinear Scattering of Long Waves by a Vertical Cylinder;
J.N. Newman. Mathematical Aspects of the Cauchy-Poisson Problem in Three Dimensions;
F. Ursell. Part III: Nonlinear Waves. Finite Elements for the Boussinesq Wave Equations;
H.P. Langtangen, G. Pedersen. Continuous Bores on a Viscous Fluid Down an Incline;
J.-J. Lee, C.C. Mei. Refraction of Solitons and Wave Jumps;
G. Pedersen. Effect of Film Elasticity on Drift Currents Induced by Growing Waves;
Ø Saetra, J.E. Weber. A Resonating Triad of Gravity-Capillary Waves on a Long Gravity Wave;
K. Trulsen, C.C. Mei. Surface Tension Gradient-Driven Wave Motion in Shallow Liquid Layers;
M.G. Velarde, et al. Part IV: Nonlinear Stability and Convective Flows. Bifurcation Sequences in Problems of Thermal Convection and of Plane Couette Flow;
F.H. Busse, R.M. Clever. On the Steady Flow in a Cell Created by a Double-Diffusive Convection Instability;
K.B. Dysthe. Double-Diffusive Experiments;
A. Foldvik, B. Rudels. Role of Non-Wave-Like Disturbances in Transition;
M.T. Landahl. Behaviour of a Nonlinear Convective Oscillator as Modified by Sub- and Super-Critically Unstable Hopf Bifurcations;
P.A. Lundberg. Waves and Secondary Flows in Stratified Gas/Liquid Duct Flow;
M. Nordsveen, A.F. Bertelsen. Transient Free Convection in a Horizontal Porous Cylinder with a Sudden Change in Wall Temperature;
H.O. Sundfør, P.A. Tyvand. Rayleigh-Bénard Convection with Weak Shear Flow: Absolute and Convective Instabilities;
M. Tveitereid, H.W. Müller. Part V: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. Experiments on Turbulence in Stratified Rotating Flows;
S.B. Dalziel, et al. The Flow Generated in a Stratified Fluid by the Motion of a Flat Horizontal Disk;
P.A. Davies, et al. Models of Drift and Dispersion in Tidal Flows;
B. Gjevik. Self-Organization Phenomena in 2D-Flows;
G.J.F. van Heijst. A New Paradigm for River Plume Mixing;
T.A. McClimans. Wave Attenuation due to Bottom Vegetation;
M. Mork. Modelling Mesoscale Features in the Ocean;
L.P. Røed. Alphabetical List of Contributors.