Waves and Nonlinear Processes in Hydrodynamics

I Review Articles.- A Brief Historical Account of Hydrodynamic Research at the University of Oslo.- Hydrodynamics in Industry. Some Examples with Special Emphasis on Marine Applications.- II Marine Hydrodynamics.- Two Fragments of a Method for Fully Nonlinear Simulations of Water Waves.- Analysis of Non-Linear Wave-Body Interactions Using Finite Elements.- On the Motion of a Rigid Body in Non-Uniform Flows.- Interaction between Waves and Slowly Rotating Floating Bodies.- Experiences from Comparing Theory with Environmental and Platform Data.- Nonlinear Scattering of Long Waves by a Vertical Cylinder.- Mathematical Aspects of the Cauchy-Poisson Problem in Three Dimensions.- III Nonlinear Waves.- Finite Elements for the Boussinesq Wave Equations.- Continuous Bores on a Viscous Fluid Down an Incline.- Refraction of Solitons and Wave Jumps.- Effect of Film Elasticity on Drift Currents Induced by Growing Waves.- A Resonating Triad of Gravity-Capillary Waves on a Long Gravity Wave.- Breaking of Ocean Waves and Downshifting.- Surface Tension Gradient-Driven Wave Motion in Shallow Liquid Layers.- IV Nonlinear Stability and Convective flows.- Bifurcation Sequences in Problems of Thermal Convection and of Plane Couette Flow.- On the Steady Flow in a Cell Created by a Double-Diffusive Convection Instability.- Double-Diffusive Experiments.- Role of Non-Wave-Like Disturbances in Transition.- Behaviour of a Nonlinear Convective Oscillator as Modified by Sub-and Super-Critically Unstable Hopf Bifurcations.- Waves and Secondary Flows in Stratified Gas/Liquid Duct Flow.- Transient Free Convection in a Horizontal Porous Cylinder with a Sudden Change in Wall Temperature.- Rayleigh-Bénard Convection with Weak Shear Flow: Absolute and Convective Instabilities.- V Geophysical FluidDynamics.- Experiments on Turbulence in Stratified Rotating Flows.- The Flow Generated in a Stratified Fluid by the Motion of a Flat Horizontal Disk.- Models of Drift and Dispersion in Tidal Flows.- Self-Organization Phenomena in 2D-Flows.- A New Paradigm for River Plume Mixing.- Wave Attenuation due to Bottom Vegetation.- Modelling Mesoscale Features in the Ocean.- Alphabetical List of Contributors.