CIEG 693/MAST 693 Syllabus



MAST 693/CIEG 693
Waves in the Marine Environment (3 credits)
Spring 2000

Class: MW 1:30-2:45 048 Memorial Hall

Instructor: James T. Kirby
Ocean Engineering Laboratory 205
831-2438
kirby@udel.edu


General Information
 
Office Hours  Thursday 2:00 to 3:00, or by Appointment 
Textbook  see reference list below. Additional material
to be handed out in class 
Grading  Home work 40%, Midterm 35%. Final 25% 
Examinations will be take-home

Course Objectives

MAST 693 is a required course for POSE program. In this course we will cover the general wave mechanics theories and their applications in water waves, acoustic/seismic waves, and electromagnetic waves. The formal derivation of the wave equation as a generalized Sturm-Liouville theory as well as the solution using different boundary conditions will be discussed. As an advanced application, the forward problem of wave scattering, internal waves, wave reflection, transmission and attenuation mechanics will be covered. Related topics, such as Fourier analysis, signal processing etc., will also be presented in the class if time allowed (or will refer you to read supplementary materials for those topics). A list of the tentative lecture topics and basic materials to be covered follows.

Course Outline (Basic materials)
 
Preliminary Background  Math. basics
 Fluids mechanics basics 
Wave Mechanics
(Wave Equations)		  Mechanical systems
 Waves in fluid media
 Waves in elastic media
 Electromagnetic waves
 Boundary and initial conditions
Solutions of the Wave Eqns.  Sturm-Liouville theory
 Normal mode solutions
 PE approximations
 Introduction to numerical solution
Applications  
Water waves: Surface waves  Wave propagation in fluid media with
  free surface. Irrotational case.
  effect of density stratificationand
Water waves: Internal waves  Waves in layered media.
 Waves in continuously stratified media.
 Wave guides and normal modes.
Underwater Acoustics  Acoustic Wave propagation in water and
 scattering mechanics
Elastic waves  Waves in elastic solids.
 Surface waves, body waves.
 Seismology.

Reading Materials
  1. Water wave mechanics for engineers and scientists, R. G. Dean and R. A. Dalrymple, World Scientific, 1991. (required)

  2. Waves in fluids, J. Lighthill, Cambridge University Press, 1978. (reference)

  3. Fundamentals of acoustical oceanography, H. Medwin and C. S. Clay, Academic, 1997 (reference).

  4. Mechanics of continua and wave dynamics, L.M. Brekhovskikh and V. Goncharov, Springer-Verlag, 1994. (reference)
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February 7, 2000