Odd M. Faltinsen

Gebundenes Buch

Hydrodynamics of High-Speed Marine Vehicles

Beschreibung

Discusses the three main categories of high-speed marine vehicles, vessels supported by submerged hulls, air cushions, or foils.

Autor

Odd M. Faltinsen received his Ph.D. in naval architecture and marine engineering from the University of Michigan in 1971. He has been a Professor of Marine Hydrodynamics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) since 1974. Dr Faltinsen has experience with a broad spectrum of hydrodynamically related problems for ships and sea structures, including hydroelastic problems and slamming. Faltinsen is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Technical Sciences, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He has held visiting professorships three times at MIT and at the Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University. His publications include more than 200 scientific papers, and books including Sea Loads on Ships and Offshore Structures (Cambridge University Press, 1990) and Sloshing, with A. Timohka (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1083g
• ISBN-13: 9780521845687
• ISBN-10: 0521845688
• Artikelnr.: 22256692