Electronic Classroom for Ocean Wave Theory

该奖项为德克萨斯a&m大学/德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校工程研究中心提供资金，名为“海上技术研究中心”，用于开发关于海浪理论与应用的多媒体电子教科书。本课件可以作为海洋、海岸、土木、环境和海洋工程的本科、研究生和继续教育课程的补充，也可以作为一本独立的书。这种教育材料将以CD-ROM和万维网格式编制。本教材的目标是让学生了解海浪理论的基础知识，以及目前评估和预测海洋对周围环境影响的实验和计算技术。本教材将包括波浪运动学、波的色散和折射、线性和非线性自由表面动力学、波浪对任意形状物体的作用力、固定或运动物体的衍射和辐射、海浪统计及其随机过程的模拟，以及中心波盆研究的实验演示。学生将能够用不同的参数解决无限数量的海浪问题，以观察不同物理变量的相对重要性，各种近似的有效性，以及解的行为。

EEC-9711733 Jose Roesset This award provides funding to the Engineering Research Center at Texas A&M University/University of Texas at Austin entitled "Offshore Technology Research Center" to develop a multimedia electronic textbook on Ocean Wave Theory and Applications. This courseware can be used as a complement to undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education courses in ocean, coastal, civil, environmental, and marine engineering or as a stand alone book. This educational material will be developed in both CD-ROM and World Wide Web format. The goal of this textbook is to provide students with an understanding of the basics of ocean wave theory and current experimental and computational techniques for assessing and predicting the effect of the ocean on its surroundings. This textbook will include topics on wave kinematics, wave dispersion and refraction, linear and nonlinear free surface dynamics, wave forces on bodies of arbitrary shape, diffraction and radiation by fixed or moving bodies, ocean wave statistics and their simulation as stochastic processes, and experimental demonstrations from the Center's wave basin research. Students will be able to solve an unlimited number of ocean wave problems with different parameters to observe the relative importance of different physical variables, validity of various approximations, and the behavior of solutions.