TY - BOOK ID - 77943513 TI - Waves and wave forces on coastal and ocean structures PY - 2006 SN - 1281379182 9786611379186 1615830375 9812774823 9781615830374 9789812774828 9789812386120 9812386122 9781281379184 PB - Hackensack, N.J. ; Singapore : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - Fluid dynamics KW - Ocean waves KW - Water waves KW - Breakers KW - Sea waves KW - Surf KW - Swell KW - Oceanography KW - Mathematical models. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77943513 AB - This book focuses on: (1) the physics of the fundamental dynamics of fluids and of semi-immersed Lagrangian solid bodies that are responding to wave-induced loads; (2) the scaling of dimensional equations and boundary value problems in order to determine a small dimensionless parameter ε that may be applied to linearize the equations and the boundary value problems so as to obtain a linear system; (3) the replacement of differential and integral calculus with algebraic equations that require only algebraic substitutions instead of differentiations and integrations; and (4) the importance of c ER -