Many of the Earth's floor is roofed via water. Many facets of our daily lives and actions should be suffering from water waves not directly. occasionally, the waves may cause catastrophe. one of many examples used to be the tsunami that happened within the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004. this means how very important it's for us to totally comprehend water waves, specifically the very huge ones. a technique to take action is to accomplish numerical simulation in line with the nonlinear concept. significant study advances were made during this zone over the last decade by way of constructing quite a few numerical equipment and making use of them to rising difficulties; although, in the past there was no accomplished booklet to mirror those advances. This exact quantity goals to bridge this hole.
This booklet comprises 18 self-contained chapters written by way of greater than 50 authors from 12 various nations, a lot of whom are world-leading specialists within the box. each one bankruptcy is predicated generally at the pioneering paintings of the authors and their study groups during the last many years. The chapters altogether take care of just about all numerical tools which have been hired thus far to simulate nonlinear water waves and canopy many vital and intensely attention-grabbing purposes, equivalent to overturning waves, breaking waves, waves generated through landslides, freak waves, solitary waves, tsunamis, sloshing waves, interplay of maximum waves with shorelines, interplay with mounted constructions, and interplay with free-response floating buildings. accordingly, this ebook offers a entire evaluation of the cutting-edge learn and key achievements in numerical modeling of nonlinear water waves, and serves as a special reference for postgraduates, researchers and senior engineers operating in industry.
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