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Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
Prologue: Cavitation | p. 1 |
On the theory and modeling of real cavity flows | p. 3 |
Nonlinear Waves: Theoretical Considerations | p. 27 |
Localization of dispersive waves in weakly random media | p. 29 |
Water wave equations | p. 48 |
Wu's mass postulate and approximate solutions of the fKdV equation | p. 60 |
Explicit analytic solutions of KdV equation given by the homotopy analysis method | p. 70 |
Rigorous computation of Nekrasov's integral equation for water waves | p. 84 |
Numerical modeling of nonlinear surface waves and its validation | p. 94 |
Three dimensional wave for water waves on finite depth: The Davey-Stewartson system | p. 111 |
Rip currents due to wave-current interaction | p. 117 |
Higher order Boussinesq equations for water waves on uneven bottom | p. 128 |
Waves on a liquid sheet | p. 140 |
A different view on data from a nonlinear and nonstationary world | p. 150 |
Nonlinear Waves: Experiments and Computations | p. 171 |
Solitary-wave collisions | p. 173 |
Computer simulations of overtaking internal solitary waves | p. 195 |
Theoretical and experimental investigation of waves due to a moving dipole in a stratified fluid | p. 213 |
Thin film dynamics in a liquid lined circular pipe | p. 222 |
Transverse waves in a channel with rectangular cross section | p. 239 |
Long time evolution of nonlinear wave trains in deep water | p. 247 |
On the Zhang-Wu run-up model | p. 257 |
A numerical study of bore runup a slope | p. 265 |
Studies of intense internal gravity waves: Field measurements and numerical modeling | p. 286 |
Nonlinear internal waves in the South China Sea | p. 297 |
A numerical predictive model of tides around Taiwan | p. 314 |
New concepts in image analysis applied to the study of nonlinear wave interactions | p. 327 |
Wave Structure Interaction | p. 353 |
Nonlinear wave loads acting on a body with a low-frequency oscillation | p. 355 |
Analytical features of unsteady ship waves | p. 371 |
A note on the classical free surface hydrodynamic impact problem | p. 390 |
Measurements of velocity field around hydrofoil of finite span with shallow submergence | p. 408 |
Biomechanics: Medical | p. 423 |
Blood flow abnormalities in sickle cell anemia | p. 425 |
Does interfacial viscosity exist, its application to medical science | p. 440 |
Unsteady flows with moving boundaries: Pulsating blood flows and earthquake hydrodynamics | p. 446 |
Interdisciplinary education and research experiences for Undergraduates in mathematics and biology | p. 474 |
In vitro study on the internal design of Provox 2[superscript TM] voice prosthesis | p. 484 |
A potential role for muscle pump-generated intravascular solitons in maintenance of tissue-engineered bioreactors implanted in bone | p. 493 |
Biomechanics: Zoological | p. 513 |
Creeping flow around a finite row of slender bodies | p. 515 |
Theory and numerical calculation of hovering flight of a dragonfly | p. 539 |
A numerical study on fluid dynamics of backward and forward swimming in the eel Anguilla Anguilla | p. 557 |
Impulse extremization in vortex formation for application in low speed maneuvering of underwater vehicles | p. 574 |
Hydrodynamics: MHD, Viscous and Geophysical Flows | p. 601 |
MHD self-propulsion and motion of deformable shapes | p. 603 |
Nonlinear analysis on transition to form coherent structures | p. 613 |
Large-Reynolds-number flow across a translating circular cylinder | p. 625 |
A spectral method for the mass transport in a layer of power-law fluid under periodic forcing | p. 633 |
The cohesion and re-separation of particles in slow viscous flows | p. 651 |
On coherent vortices in turbulent plane jets generated by surface Water Waves | p. 660 |
A dynamic model for strong vortices over topography on a [beta] Plane | p. 669 |
Sea ice floe tracking and motion analysis for SAR imagery in the marginal ice zone | p. 681 |
Reflections and Resolutions | p. 691 |
Reflections and resolutions to some recent studies on fluid Mechanics | p. 693 |
p. 715 | |
The origin of this book of scientific reflections: The other side of doing engineering science | |
Author Index | p. 729 |
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