Water Wave Mechanics (2008 Spring)

• Instructor : Kyung-Duck Suh (Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental

Engineering, Room 38-410, Tel: 880-8760, E-mail: kdsuh@snu.ac.kr)

• Textbook : Dean, R.G. and Dalrymple, R.A., 1991. Water Wave Mechanics for Engineers                   and Scientists. World Scientific)

• Topics :

1. Introduction

2. Review of hydrodynamics and vector analysis

3. Small-amplitude water wave theory

4. Engineering wave properties

5. Long waves

6. Wavemaker theory

7. Wave statistics and spectra

8. Waves over real sea beds

• Additional references :

1. Hydrodynamics. Lamb, H., 1945, Dover.

2. Estuary and coastline hydrodynamics. Ippen, A.T. (ed.), 1966, McGraw-Hill.

3. Shore protection manual. CERC, US Army Corps of Engineers, 1984.

4. The applied dynamics of ocean surface waves. Mei, C.C., 1989, World Scientific.

5. Basic wave mechanics: for coastal and ocean engineers. Sorensen, R.M., 1993,

John Wiley & Sons.

6. Random seas and design of maritime structures. Goda, Y., 2000, World Scientific.

• Exams : One mid-term and final

• Homeworks : Homework problems will be assigned at the end of every chapter.

• Evaluation: Mid-term 40 %,  Final 40%,  Homeworks 20%