Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Dynamic Wave

Code

9683

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Department

Departamento de Engenharia Civil

Credits

6.0

Teacher in charge

Maria da Graça Reis e Silva de Oliveira Neves

Teaching language

Português

Subject matter

Characterization of seawaves.

Regular and irregular waves, spectralrepresentation

General equations and dynamic and cinematicconditions

Linearization of Water surfaceconditions

Linear theory of surfacewaves

Non-linear waves theories (theory of Stokes, Boussinesq, KdV andCnoidal).

Deep and shallow waterpropagation

Waves energy.

Waves actions on coastal and off-shorestructures

Bibliography

R.G. Dean and R.A.Dalrymple. Water wave mechanics for engineers and scientists, Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering - Vol II. World Scientific, Singapore, 1991.

B. Le Méhauté. An introduction to hydrodynamics and water waves, Springel Verlag, New York, 1976.

C.C. Mei. The applied Dynamics of ocean surface waves. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998.

M. Carvallho. Sea wave simulation. Memórias do LNEC, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil Lisboa, 1990.

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