P. Ananthakrishnan
Associate Professor
Department of Ocean Engineering
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991.
Tel. 1-561-297-3463 (or)
1-561-297-3430 (main office)
Fax. 1-561-297-3885
at SeaTech, Dania
(the other campus):
Tel. 1-954-924-7227
(or) 1-954-924-7000 (main office); Fax: 1-954-924-7007
e-mail: ananth@oe.fau.edu
EDUCATION
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology,
Chennai (Madras)
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Advisor: Professor Ronald W. Yeung
Thesis:
Surface waves generated by a translating
two-dimensional body: effects of viscosity.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Associate Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, 2000--.
Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, 1995-2000.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, 1993-1995.
Postdoctoral Fellow/Lecturer, Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1991-1993.
Graduate Student Research Assistant, Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1986-1991.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
|_Waves generated by an
underwater body - P. Ananthakrishnan'96)_|
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Undergraduate courses in Engineering Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Ocean Wave Mechanics, Ship Hydrodynamics and Ocean Engineering Systems Design.
Graduate courses in Physical Oceanography,
Hydrodynamics, Advanced Wave Mechanics and Computational Methods.
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Reports
P. Ananthakrishnan and S. Decron,
``Dynamics of Small- and Mini-Autonomous
Underwater Vehicles: Part I. Analysis and Simulation for Midwater
Applications'', Technical Report , 63p, Department of
Ocean Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, July 2000
Refereed
Papers
D. Lysogorski, W. Hartt and P. Ananthakrishnan, ``A modified potential attenuation equation for cathodically polarized marine pipelines and risers,'' The Journal of Science and Engineering, Corrosion , pp. 684-687, August 2003.
P. Pierson, K. Bethune, W. Hartt and P. Ananthakrishnan, ``A new equation for potential attenuation and anode current output projection for cathodically polarized pipelines and risers,'' The Journal of Science and Engineering, Corrosion , pp. 350-361, April 2000.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Generation and evolution of free-surface vorticity in a solitary-wave field,'' (to be submitted), 1999.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Radiation hydrodynamics of a floating vertical cylinder in a viscous fluid,'' Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 125, No.7, pp. 836-847, 1999.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Dynamic response of an underwater body to surface waves,'' (to be submitted), 1999.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Heave oscillations of a submerged vertical cylinder in a viscous fluid,'' International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering , vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 173--181, 1998.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Nonlinear diffraction of waves over a submerged body in a real fluid,'' Proceedings of the Eighth International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Montreal, 1998.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Analysis of rigid-body oscillations near the free surface of a viscous fluid,'' Developments in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, vol. 19, pp. 512--526, 1998.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with R. W. Yeung), ``Viscosity and surface-tension effects on wave generation by a translating body,'' Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 32, pp. 257--280, 1997.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Heave oscillation of a submerged vertical cylinder,'' Proceedings of the Seventh International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Honolulu, vol. III, pp. 672--679, 1997.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with R. W. Yeung), ``Nonlinear interaction of a vortex pair with clean and surfactant-covered free surfaces,'' Wave Motion, vol. 19, pp. 343--365, 1994.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with R. W. Yeung), ``Vortical flows with and without a surface-piercing body,'' Proceedings of the Nineteenth Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Seoul, Korea, pp. 219--240, 1992.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with R. W. Yeung), ``Oscillation of a floating body in a viscous fluid,'' Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 26, pp. 211--230, 1992.
Conference Papers
P. Ananthakrishnan (with L. Martel), ``Simulation of AUV motion in shallow water,'' Proceedings of the Oceans Community Conference'98, Baltimore, 1998.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with K. Zhang), ``AUV motion in a wave field,'' Proceedings of the IEEE OCEANS'98 Conference, Nice, France, 1998.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with J. Cairns, E. Larnicol, S. Smith and S. Dunn ), ``Design of AUV propeller based on a blade element method,'' Proceedings of the IEEE OCEANS'98 Conference, Nice, France, 1998.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``On the evolution of body-generated vortex rings underneath a free surface,'' Proceedings of the 12th Engineering Mechanics Conference, San Diego, 1998.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with S. Vantouroux, K-Q. Zhang, S. M. Smith), ``Nonlinear dynamics and hydrodynamics considerations in the design of an autonomous underwater vehicle,'', Proceedings of the Oceanology International'98 Conference, vol. 3, pp. 119--128, Brighton, UK, 1998.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Scattering of waves by a submerged body,'' Proceedings of the ONR Workshop on Free-Surface Turbulence and Bubbly Flows, Pasadena, 1998.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Nonlinear wave radiation and diffraction by a near-surface body,'' Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Program of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, 1997.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Hydrodynamics of waves and vortices generated by an oscillating body,'' Proceedings of the 1997 ASME Fluid Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Paper: FEDSM97-3396, Vancouver, 1997.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Generation of waves and vortices by an oscillating body a nd their interactions,''Proceedings of the U.S. Office of Naval Research Workshop on Free-Surface and Wall-Bounded Turbulence and Turbulent Flows, California In stitute of Technology, Pasadena, 1997.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Numerical modeling of nonlinear air-sea interactions,'' Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Program of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Syracuse University, 1996.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Radiation hydrodynamics of a slightly-submerged body,'' Proceedings of the 11th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, pp. 832--835, 1996.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Nonlinear free-surface flow about oscillating bodies,'' Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Program of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Syracuse University, 1996.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Analysis of nonlinear air-sea interactions,'' Proceedings of the Forum on Advances in Numerical Modeling of Free Surface and Interface Fluid Dynamics, ASME, Publication FED-Vol. 234, pp.175--182, 1995.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``On vortex breakdown in swirling free-surface flows,'' Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Program of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, University of California at Irvine, 1995.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Nonlinear interaction between air flow and water waves,'' Proceedings of the U.S. Office of Naval Research Workshop on Free-Surface and Wall-Bounded Turbulence and Turbulent Flows, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1995.
P. Ananthakrishnan, ``Nonlinear vorticity and wave interactions: an axisymmetric swirling flow near a free surface,'' Proceedings of the U.S. Office of Naval Research Workshop on Free-Surface and Wall-Bounded Turbulence and Turbulent Flows, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1994.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with R. W. Yeung), ``Free-surface and submerged-body interactions in a viscous fluid,'' Proceedings of the Symposium on Vorticity and Free-Surface Interactions, Twelfth U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, University of Washington, Seattle, 1994.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with R. W. Yeung), ``Oscillation of a slightly-submerged cylinder in a viscous fluid,'' Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Val de Reuil, France, 1992.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with R. W. Yeung), ``Free-surface flows in a viscous fluid,'' Proceedings of the U.S. Office of Naval Research Free-surface Vorticity Workshop, University of California at San Diego, 1992.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with R. W. Yeung), ``Large-amplitude oscillation of two-dimensional bodies in a viscous fluid with a free surface,'' Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Woods Hole, 1991.
P. Ananthakrishnan (with R. W. Yeung), ``Solution of nonlinear water-wave and
wave-body interaction problems using a new boundary-fitted coordinates
method,'' Proceedings of the Fourth International
Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Oystese, Norway, 1990.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
American Physical Society
Marine Technology Society
American Society for Engineering Education
Tau Beta Pi
Link to Surface Waves by Wehausen & Laitone