IUTAM Bookseries

Preface; Opening Address; Welcome Address; List of Contributors; Non-linearities and Coupling Effects on Floating Breakwaters Eigenvalues, by Jean Bougis; Hydrodynamic Loads during Water Entry of a Flat Plate, by Ulderico Bulgarelli, Alessandro Iafrati, Alexander Korobkin; Large amplitude rolling and strongly nonlinear behaviour of multihull ships in moderate beam waves, by Gabriele Bulian, Alberto Francescutto; A New Solution Method for Unsteady Flows Around Oscillating Bluff Bodies, by Earl H. Dowell, Kenneth C. Hall, Jeffrey P. Thomas, Robert E. Kielb, Meredith A. Spiker, Charles M. Denegri Jr; Nonlinear Dynamics of Offshore Systems in Random Seas, by Katrin Ellermann; Experimental and numerical results on VIV and WIO, by Beno it Gaurier, Gr egory Germain, Marc Le Boulluec, Eric Giry, Emmanuel Fontaine; Viscous Damping of Large Floating Structures, by J. Michael R. Graham, Timothy E. Kendon;Nonlinear Surface Waves interacting with a Vertical Cylinder. The first few Steps of a General Method, by John Grue; Hydrodynamics of Damping Plates at Small KC Numbers, by Haiping He, Armin W. Troesch, Marc Perlin; Modelling and Adaptive Control of an Underwater Vehicle System: A Multibody System Approach, by Nguyen Quang Hoang, Edwin Kreuzer; Effects of Heave Excitation on Rotations of a Pendulum for Wave Energy Extraction, by Bryan W. Horton, Marian Wiercigroch; A CFD Approach for Extremely Nonlinear Wave-Body Interactions: Development and Validation, by Changhong Hu, Masashi Kashiwagi; Estimation of Parametric Roll in a Stochastic Seaway, by J. Juncher Jensen, P. Terndrup Pedersen, Jelena Vidic-Perunovic; A Reduced Order Model for Vortex-Induced Vibration of a Vertical Offshore Riser in Lock-in, by Marko Keber, Marian Wiercigroch; Non-Classical Boundary Conditions in Water-Impact Problems, by Alexander Korobkin; A Method for the Model Reduction of a Wave-excited Floating Body, by Edwin Kreuzer, Marian Markiewicz, Marc-Andr e Pick; Fluid-StructureInteraction of Propellers, by Jens Neugebauer, Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud, Manfred Braun; On the lift forces acting on an accelerated/decelerated cylinder beneath a free surface, by Raphael Rajaona, Luc Rakotondrajaona, Eddy Rasolomanana; Asymptotic analysis of linear/nonlinear vibrations of suspended cables under heavy fluid loading, by Giuseppe Rega, Sergey Sorokin; Thickness and cavitation effects on vibrations of hydrofoils at large angle of attack, by Christophe Sarraf, Henda Djeridi, Jean-Yves Billard; Nonlinear Interaction of Shallow Water Waves in Polar Coordinates, by Alexander Shermenev; Seakeeping Performance Analysis by Nonlinear 2D+t Slender-Ship Theory, by Wolfgang Sichermann; Nonlinear Dynamics of Ship Steering Behaviour Under Environmental Excitations, by Kostas J. Spyrou, Ioannis G. Tigkas; Dimension Reduction of Fluid Conveying Tubes: A Nontrivial Problem, by Alois Steindl, Hans Troger; Asymmetric Water Entry of a Bow-Flare Ship Section with Roll Angle, by Hui Sun, Odd Magnus Faltinsen; Melnikov's Method for Ship Motions without the Constraint of Small Linear Damping, by Wan Wu, Leigh McCue; A Non-linear Hydroelasticity Theory of Ships and its Application, by You-Sheng Wu, Chao Tian; Index .