Professor
Robert F. Beck

 
 
Engineering for the Marine Environment
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Ph. D. Committees Chaired

Armin W. Troesch, The Diffraction Potential for a Slender Ship Moving Through Oblique Waves, 1975

 Tin-Woo Yung, Hydrodynamic Interactions Between Ships in Shallow Water, 1977

Charles M. Cary, An Analytical Alternative to the Planar Motion Mechanism for a Ship in Shallow Water, 1980
        
Surasak Sri-Aroon, Advanced Approach to the Design of Simplified Hull Form, 1982
        
Stergios Liapis, Initial Value Problem for the Motion of a Ship, 1985

Brad King, Exciting Forces using Time Domain Analysis, 1987
                    
Ted Kelly, The Interaction of Rotational Flows with Free Surfaces, 1989

Jin-Sug Chung, Slow Motion Dynamics of Two-Line Towed/Moored Ships, (co-chair with M. Bernitsas) 1991

Allan Magee, Nonlinear Time-Domain Ship Motions, 1991

Yusong Cao, Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Free  Surface Flows, 1991
              
Tzung-Hang Lee, Nonlinear Radiation Problems for a Surface-Piercing Body, 1992

Stephen Scorpio, Application of Multipole Acceleration Techniques to Fully Nonlinear
Water Wave Problems, 1997

Jeng-Horng Chen, Turbulence Generation in Dispersed Particle-Laden Flows, (co-chair with Gerard Faeth) 1999

Anil Subramani, Computations of Highly Nonlinear Free-Surface Flows, with Applications to Arbitrary and Complex Hull Forms, 2000
              
Patrick Finn, Large Amplitude Non-Linear Seakeeping Using a Desingularized Method, 2003.

Kunho Kim, Viscous-Inviscid Interaction Study Using Modified RANS Equations, 2004  

William Belknap, A Computationally Efficient Method for Nonlinear Multi-Hull Seakeeping, expected graduation 2007 

Steven Zalek, Multi-Hull Multi-Criterion Hydrodynamic Optimization, (co-chair with Michael Parsons) expected graduation 2007
              
Xinshu Zhang, Nonlinear Wave-Body Interactions, expected graduation 2007

 

 

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