Nonlinear Water Waves: IUTAM Symposium, Tokyo/Japan, August 25–28, 1987

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Nonlinear Effects in Water Wave Diffraction....Pages 3-15
Recent Developments in the Modelling of Unsteady and Breaking Water Waves....Pages 17-27
Second Order Nonlinear Interactions Between Waves and Low Frequency Body Motion....Pages 29-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Evolutional Behaviour and Instability of a Single Wave Packet....Pages 47-54
On the Initial Evolution of Gravity-Capillary Waves....Pages 55-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Nonlinear Forced Water Waves in a Shallow Channel near a Cut-off Frequency....Pages 63-67
Precursor Solitons Generated by Threedimensional Disturbances Moving in a Channel....Pages 69-75
Asymptotic Behavior of a Shallow-Water Soliton Reflected at a Sloping Beach....Pages 77-84
Normal Form and Solitons in the Shallow Water Waves....Pages 85-91
Energy Distribution of Shallow Water Swell under the Maximum Probability Condition....Pages 93-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Experimental and Numerical Study of Long-time Evolution of Standing Waves in a Rectangular Tank....Pages 103-110
Nonlinear Waves in Circular Basins....Pages 111-118
Numerical Analysis of Wave Motion Using the Lagrangian Description....Pages 119-126
Transient Approaches of Non-linearities in Naval Hydrodynamics....Pages 127-134
The Theoretical Studies on Nonlinear Standing Waves....Pages 135-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Critical Condition for the Appearance of Steady Breakers on 2-dimensional Wave Generated by Submerged Foil....Pages 145-150
Surging Characteristics of Spilling Zones of Quasi-steady Breaking Water Waves....Pages 151-158
Steady and Unsteady Spilling Breakers: Theory....Pages 159-167
Surf Zone Breakers with Current....Pages 169-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Subharmonic Resonance of Nonlinear Cross-waves: Theory and Experiment....Pages 181-189
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Pulse Interactions and Wave Evolutions in an Unstable Dissipative Dispersive System....Pages 191-198
Nonlinear Wave Deformation on a Beach with Arbitrary Profile....Pages 199-206
Application of Hamiltonian Methods to the Structure and Stability of Water Waves of Permanent Form....Pages 207-210
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Effects of Velocity Shear on the Stability of Surface Deep Water Wave Trains....Pages 213-220
Large Amplitude Interfacial Solitary Waves....Pages 221-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Forces Due to Two-dimensional Forced Oscillation....Pages 231-238
Nonlinear Diffraction Loads upon Three-dimensional Bodies of Arbitrary Shape....Pages 239-246
On Calculations of Nonlinear Wave-body Interaction Effects....Pages 247-258
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Second-order Wave Forces Acting on a Horizontal Circular Cylinder in Irregular Waves....Pages 261-273
Slow Drift and Trapping of Waves on Submerged Bodies....Pages 275-282
Slowly Varying Wave Drift Forces in Current....Pages 283-291
Second-order Hydrodynamic Forces on Moored Vessels in Random Waves....Pages 293-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Nonlinear Ship Waves at Low Froude Number....Pages 303-312
On Stationary Waves Superposed to the Flow Around a Body in Uniform Stream....Pages 313-320
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Second-order Waves — Importance in Experiment and Nature....Pages 323-330
Deformation of the Two-dimensional Low-frequency Wave Spectrum in the Shallow Water Region....Pages 331-338
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
An Experimental Investigation into Nonlinear Resonant Wave Interactions in the Ship Model Basin....Pages 341-348
Simulation of Wave-spectra with Boussinesq-type Wave Equations....Pages 349-356
One-dimensional and Weakly Two-dimensional Waves in Varying Channels: Numerical Examples....Pages 357-364
A Theoretical and Experimental Study of Precursor Solitary Waves Generated by Moving Disturbances....Pages 365-372
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
Instability and Breaking of a Solitary Wave....Pages 373-380
The Turbulent Flow Fields and Vortex Structures Inside Surf Zone....Pages 381-388
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
Nonlinear Instability Waves in Channels and Jets....Pages 391-398
Long Internal Waves of Large Amplitude....Pages 399-406
Transmission and Reflection of a Planar Soliton....Pages 407-414
Nonlinear Interaction of Waves and Vertical Wall....Pages 415-422
Superharmonic Waves Generated by the Large Amplitude Heaving Motion of a Submerged Body....Pages 423-433
A New Approach to Nonlinear Waves Generated by a Body Moving Steadily at a Free Surface....Pages 435-442
Extreme Wave Forces Acting on a Floating Structure....Pages 443-450
Large Slow Drift of a Ship in Slightly Modulated Beam Seas....Pages 451-457
The Statistics of Slow Drift Oscillations with Nonlinear Restoring Forces....Pages 459-466