Ocean Engineering Research AdvancesAlan I. Prescott Ocean engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the design, analysis and operation planning of systems that operate in an oceanic environment. Examples of systems range from oil platforms to submarines, from breakwaters to sailboats. Common to all are the conditions of the ocean including waves, seawater, and hydrostatic pressure. The ocean environment presents a vast quantity of renewable sources of energy in the form of winds, waves, tides, currents and the density and thermal gradients between ocean water layers. This book presents leading-edge research in ocean engineering. |
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EXPLOITING THE DEEP OCEANS FOR ENERGY RESOURCES AND THE PREVENTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MELTDOWN | 49 |
AN IMPROVEMENT IN AIS THE PREDICTION ABILITY ABOUT THE SHIPS COURSE | 57 |
HYSTERETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WELLS TURBINE FOR WAVE POWER CONVERSION | 89 |
RANDOM WAVEINDUCED PORE PRESSURE AND EFFECTIVE STRESSES IN A POROUS SEABED | 113 |
COUPLED RANSBOUSSINESQ SCHEME FOR EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS OF WAVE ACTION ON COASTAL STRUCTURES | 167 |
FORCED VIBRATIONS OF RECTANGULAR ANISOTROPIC PLATES IN AN OCEAN STRUCTURE | 185 |
A 2D HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL WITH MULTIQUADTREE MESH | 215 |
QUAD TREE BASED NUMERICAL MODEL FOR COASTAL HYDRODYNAMICS SIMULATION | 253 |
RECENT ADVANCES IN NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS FOR INTERACTION OF VISCOUS TRAVELLING WAVE WITH STRUCTURES IN NE... | 279 |
A TYPHOONHURRICANE SWELL PREDICTION SCHEME | 312 |
Index | 324 |
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Page 5 - If, however, the ring stiffeners are not strong enough, the entire ring-shell combination can buckle bodily through general instability, as shown in Figure 4.
Page 4 - Introduction The pressure hulls of submarines and the legs of off-shore drilling rigs are often constructed from thin-walled circular cylinders. Now under external water pressure, a thin-walled circular cylinder can buckle at a small fraction of the pressure to cause axisy mmetric yield.