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V EXAMPLES ILLUSTRATING USE OF WAVE TABLES 58 



Introduction 58 



Example 1— Deck Elevation and Wave Forces and Moments on an 



Offshore Platform 58 



Deck Elevation 60 



Forces on Member "a" 60 



Forces on Member "b" 61 



Forces on Member "c" 63 



Moments on Member "a" 65 



Moments on Member "b" 69 



Moments on Member "c" 69 



Example 2— Wave Characteristics, Kinematics and Pressure Fields . . 74 



Wavelength 74 



Wave Profile 74 



Water Particle Kinematics 75 



Dynamic Pressure 78 



Example 3— Free Surface Boundary Condition Errors 78 



Distributed Boundary Condition Errors 78 



Overall Kinematic Free Surface Boundary Condition Errors ... 78 



Overall Dynamic Free Surface Boundary Condition Errors .... 81 



Example 4— Calculation of Energy, Momentum, and Energy and 



Momentum Fluxes 82 



Average Potential Energy 82 



Average Kinetic Energy 82 



Total Energy 82 



Energy Flux 82 



Group Velocity 82 



Average Momentum 83 



Average Momentum Flux in Wave Direction 83 



Average Momentum Flux Transverse to Wave Direction 83 



Example 5-Free Surface Breaking Parameters 83 



Example 6— Combined Shoahng-refraction 84 



Example 6-a 84 



Example 6-b 85 



