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Apply Now for the 37th Dredging Engineering Short Course

The 37th Dredging Engineering Short Course will be held January 7-11, 2008.

The next Cutter Suction Dredge Simulator Short Course will be held January 14-16, 2008

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Graduate Course Descriptions

Course Descriptions for all courses offered on campus are available in the University Course Catalog On-Line. The requirements for obtaining a degree in Ocean Engineering are summarized in the Academics section.

The following courses are taught in the Ocean Engineering Program. A Flow Chart (PDF) is also available that shows pre-requisite relationships and summarizes the graduate curriculum in Ocean Engineering.

OCEN 671. Ocean Wave Mechanics. (3-0). Credit 3. Wave theory and applications to engineering problems; linear and nonlinear theories of regular gravity waves; wave properties and transformation in shoaling water; wave spectra and spectral analysis of irregular waves. Prerequisites: OCEN 462 or equivalent.

OCEN 672. Coastal Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. Effects of waves on coastal structures; design of seawall breakwaters, jetties, harbors, ship channels and pipelines; intentional and accidental discharge of pollutants; diffusion and spreading; oil spill containment and collection. Prerequisite: OCEN 671.

OCEN 673. Nonlinear Hydrodynamic Problems in Ocean Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. Nonlinear hydrodynamic problems involved with the complex offshore structures in the high sea environment; nonlinear waves application of Volterra model to weakly nonlinear systems; generation of nonlinear model waves; nonlinear hydrodynamic interaction between the waves and structure; dynamic analysis of nonlinear response of integrated offshore structures. Prerequisite: OCEN 671 and 678.

OCEN 674. Ports & Harbors. (3-0). Credit 3. Basic port planning including site selection, environmental factors, and economic considerations; design of wharves, quays, jetties, breakwaters and navigational channels and fenders; harbor sedimentation and maintenance dredging; design of fishing, small craft and recreation boat harbors. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

OCEN 676. Dynamics of Offshore Structures. (3-0). Credit 3. Review of concepts of linear structural dynamic analysis for time and frequency domain simulations, functional design of offshore platforms, pipelines, floating structures and moorings. Environmental loading problems. Hydrodynamic phenomena including wind and current interaction, vortex shedding and wave forces; fluid/structure interaction models. Prerequisite: OCEN 300 and 301 or approval of instructor.

OCEN 678. Fluid Dynamics for Ocean and Environmental Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. General conservation laws. Euler’s equation, forms of the Bernoulli’s equation. Potential flow of an incompressible fluid; flow past a body of any shape; source and vortex distribution; lift for a slender body. Linear and nonlinear water waves. Small amplitude oscillations in a compressible ideal fluid or viscous flow theory. Prerequisite: OCEN 462 or approval of instructor.

CVEN 679. Theory of Fluid Mechanics Models. (3-0). Credit 3. Dimensional analysis; model laws; mechanics and coastal engineering models; fixed-bed; movable-bed, geometric, and distorted models for flows with free surface; sediment transport; waves, tides, and estuary models. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

OCEN 681. Seminar. (0-2). Credit 1. Reports and discussion of current research and of selected published technical articles. May not be taken for credit more than once in masters degree program and twice in Ph.D. program.

OCEN 682. Coastal Sediment Processes. (3-0). Credit 3. Sediment properties and size distribution, fluvial sediment transport equations, movement of material by the sea, review of pertinent wave theories, littoral drift, inlet stability, coastal protection structures, similarity in sediment transport, movable bed models, sediment tracing, Aeolian sand transport, case studies. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

OCEN 683. Estuary Hydrodynamics. (3-0). Credit 3. Development of applicable equations for tidal dynamics applied to real estuaries. Technology for determination of mean velocities, circulation patterns, water depths, turbulent dispersion patterns, etc. for solution of environmental problems in estuaries. Physical and mathematical models. Prerequisites: Basic fluid mechanics; approval of instructor.

OCEN 685. Problems. Credit 1 to 12 each semester. Special topics not within scope of thesis research and not covered by other formal courses.

CVEN 686. Offshore and Coastal Structures. (3-0). Credit 3. Fundamental design and analysis techniques; offshore platforms for shallow and deep water, pile driving analysis of large offshore piles by the wave equation; solutions to problems submitted by industry to the class during the semester. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

CVEN 687. Foundation Engineering. (3-0). Credit 3. Settlement and bearing capacity analysis of foundations; computer programs used to analyze axially loaded piles, laterally loaded piles, and sheet-pile walls.

OCEAN 688. Marine Dredging. (3-0). Credit 3. Dredge pump selection; pump and system characteristics; cavitation; types of dredges; continental shelf and deep-ocean dredging; head loss in horizontal and vertical pipes for two- and three-phase flow; design of disposal methods for dredged material; environmental effects of dredging. Prerequisite: Approval of instructor.

CVEN 688. Computational Fluid Dynamics. (3-0). Credit 3. Finite-difference and finite-element methods and basic numerical concepts for the solution of dispersion, propagation, and equilibrium problems commonly encountered in real fluid flows. Theoretical accuracy analysis techniques. Prerequisites: Undergraduate course in fluid mechanics; MATH 601 and/or basic course in linear algebra; and knowledge of one programming language.

CVEN 680. Advanced Computation Methods for Fluid Flow. (3-0). Credit 3. Unsteady three-dimensional Navier- Stokes equations in general nonorthogonal curvilinear coordinates; algebraic and elliptic grid generation; turbulence modeling for complex flows; advanced numerical methods for unsteady incompressible turbulent flows; large-eddy simulations; Reynolds-averaged Navier- Stokes simulation; chimera domain decomposition and interactive zonal approach. Prerequisite: CVEN 688 or approval of instructor.

OCEN 689. Special Topics in... Credit 1 to 4. Selected topics in an identified area of ocean engineering. May be repeated for credit.

OCEN 691. Research. Credit 1 or more each semester. Research for thesis or dissertation.