Characteristics of Slowly-varying Wave Drifting Forces Acting on VLFS

On Slowly Varying Stokes Waves

ON SLOWLY VARYING STOKES WAVES by VINCENT HWA-HING CHU In this thesis investigations are made on the theory of a train of slowly modulated gravity waves propagating over uneven bottom topography. The primary object is to study the interplay of amplitude dispersion the frequency dispersion in waves on the surface of water where the depth is not too shallow compared to a typical wave length. The ...

Very Slowly Varying Functions

A real-valued function f of a real variable is said to be (p-slowly varying ((p-s .v.) if limn_ . rp (x) [ f (x + a) f (x)] = 0 for each a. It is said to be uniformly 9-slowly varying (u . (P-s .v .) if limn-. . sup, e r rp(x) ; f (x-a) f (x)I =0 for every bounded interval I. It is supposed throughout that rp is positive and increasing . It is proved that if w increases rapidly enough, then eve...

Identifiability of Slowly Varying Systems

A system is conceived of as being slowly varying if it changes slowly enough to permit identification to within a specified error. A generic model is developed to study the identifiability and identification of slowly varying systems. The model is suitable for a large variety of nonlinear, time-varying, causal, bounded memory systems; it has finitely many parameters and is linear in its paramet...

Very Slowly Varying Functions Ii

This paper is a sequel to both Ash, Erd1⁄2os and Rubel [AER], on very slowly varying functions, and [BOst1], on foundations of regular variation. We show that generalizations of the Ash-Erd1⁄2os-Rubel approach –imposing growth restrictions on the function h, rather than regularity conditions such as measurability or the Baire property – lead naturally to the main result of regular variation, th...

Aerodynamic Forces Acting on Valve Discs