My Footsteps on the Floating Dock

What´s floating on my plasma?

We report on a preanalytical issue we encountered during routine clinical chemistry analyses, potentially leading to deviated analysis results and believe that it might help other laboratories to overcome similar problems. In a heparin-gel tube we measured an implausible glucose value of 0.06 mmol/L. Re-measurement of the same sample resulted in a glucose value of 5.4 mmol/L. After excluding an...

Trace of Water’s Footsteps on the History of Kashan

Traces of waters footsteps can rarely be found in history of Kashan. Traces which Sohrab Sepehri, a contemporary figure of Kashan, showed us and its meaning runs deep in our mythology. In this article, we believe that tracing water’s footsteps gives us a better source and description on the social history of this city. Based on the recent documents about Kashan, this essay finds an important cl...

Free-surface Wave Interaction with a Thick Flexible Dock or Very Large Floating Platform

In this paper the recently developed semi-analytic method to solve the free-surface wave interaction with a thin elastic plate is extended to the case of a plate of finite thickness. The method used is based on the reformulation of the differential-integral equation for this problem. The thickness of the plate is chosen such that the elastic behavior of the plate can be described by means of th...

Authority in the Dock

The dock problem revisited

The dock problem (cf. [2], [4, 5]), which is that of understanding the scattering of surface water waves by a thin semi-infinite rigid plate floating on the free surface of water of infinite depth, gives rise to the following mixed boundary value problem, involving Laplace’s equation in two dimensions, with (x, y) representing the rectangular Cartesian coordinates, assuming linearised theory of...