The interaction of waves with obstacles is an everyday phenomenon in science and engineering, arising for example in acoustics, electromagnetism, seismology and hydrodynamics. The mathematical theory and technology needed to understand the phenomenon is known as multiple scattering, and this book is the first devoted to the subject. The author covers a variety of techniques, describing first the single-obstacle methods and then extending them to the multiple-obstacle case. A key ingredient in many of these extensions is an appropriate addition theorem: a coherent, thorough exposition of these theorems is given, and computational and numerical issues around them are explored. The application of these methods to different types of problems is also explained; in particular, sound waves, electromagnetic radiation, waves in solids and water waves. A comprehensive bibliography of some 1400 items rounds off the book, which will be an essential reference on the topic for applied mathematicians, physicists and engineers.

Multiple Scattering: Interaction of Time-Harmonic Waves with N Obstacles

This article reviews Multiple Scattering, Interaction of Time-Harmonic Waves with N Obstacles by P. A. Martin , 2006. 450 pp. Price: $140.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 0-521-86554-9

Multiple Scattering, Interaction of Time-Harmonic Waves with N Obstacles

Short-crested waves interaction with a concentric cylindrical structure with double-layered perforated walls

This chapter deals with the evolution of platform and various types of offshore platforms and their structural action under different environmental loads. The newly evolved structural forms and their discrete characteristics are discussed in this chapter. This chapter also gives the reader a good understanding about the structural action of different forms in the offshore. An overview of the construction stages of offshore plants and their foundation systems is presented.

Dynamic Analysis and Design of Offshore Structures

Hydroelastic analysis of surface wave interaction with concentric porous and flexible cylinder systems

Interaction of regular waves with a group of dual porous circular cylinders

Hydrodynamic performance of a dual cylindrical caisson breakwater

Diffraction of solitary waves around a group of dual porous cylinders consisting of a thin and porous outer cylinder circumscribing an impermeable inner cylinder is investigated analytically based on the eigenfunction expansion method. The present formulation is an extension of the work of Zhong and Wang (2006), wherein; the interaction of solitary waves with a single concentric porous cylinder system was studied. This paper aims at investigating the influence of multiple interactions between the cylinders in a group on the hydrodynamic wave forces, wave run-up and free-surface elevation in their vicinity. Further, the study focuses on the variation of the forces on the individual cylinders within the group compared to that on isolated cylinders.Copyright © 2008 by ASME

K. Sankarbabu

Papers

Interaction of regular waves with a group of dual porous circular cylinders

Hydrodynamic performance of a dual cylindrical caisson breakwater

Interaction of Solitary Waves With a Group of Dual Porous Circular Cylinders