Preface. Part I: Review Articles. A Brief Historical Account of Hydrodynamic Research at the University of Oslo; A. Eliassen. Hydrodynamics in Industry. Some Examples with Special Emphasis on Marine Applications; F.G. Nielsen. Part II: Marine Hydrodynamics. Two Fragments of a Method for Fully Nonlinear Simulations of Water Waves; X. Cai, E. Mehlum. On the Motion of a Rigid Body in Non-Uniform Flows; A.R. Galper, T. Miloh. Interaction between Waves and Slowly Rotating Floating Bodies; J. Grue. Experiences from Comparing Theory with Environmental and Platform Data; T. Marthinsen. Nonlinear Scattering of Long Waves by a Vertical Cylinder; J.N. Newman. Mathematical Aspects of the Cauchy-Poisson Problem in Three Dimensions; F. Ursell. Part III: Nonlinear Waves. Finite Elements for the Boussinesq Wave Equations; H.P. Langtangen, G. Pedersen. Continuous Bores on a Viscous Fluid Down an Incline; J.-J. Lee, C.C. Mei. Refraction of Solitons and Wave Jumps; G. Pedersen. Effect of Film Elasticity on Drift Currents Induced by Growing Waves; Ø Saetra, J.E. Weber. A Resonating Triad of Gravity-Capillary Waves on a Long Gravity Wave; K. Trulsen, C.C. Mei. Surface Tension Gradient-Driven Wave Motion in Shallow Liquid Layers; M.G. Velarde, et al. Part IV: Nonlinear Stability and Convective Flows. Bifurcation Sequences in Problems of Thermal Convection and of Plane Couette Flow; F.H. Busse, R.M. Clever. On the Steady Flow in a Cell Created by a Double-Diffusive Convection Instability; K.B. Dysthe. Double-Diffusive Experiments; A. Foldvik, B. Rudels. Role of Non-Wave-Like Disturbances in Transition; M.T. Landahl. Behaviour of a Nonlinear Convective Oscillator as Modified by Sub-and Super-Critically Unstable Hopf Bifurcations; P.A. Lundberg. Waves and Secondary Flows in Stratified Gas/Liquid Duct Flow; M. Nordsveen, A.F. Bertelsen. Transient Free Convection in a Horizontal Porous Cylinder with a Sudden Change in Wall Temperature; H.O. Sundfør, P.A. Tyvand. Rayleigh-Bénard Convection with Weak Shear Flow: Absolute and Convective Instabilities; M. Tveitereid, H.W. Müller. Part V: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. Experiments on Turbulence in Stratified Rotating Flows; S.B. Dalziel, et al. The Flow Generated in a Stratified Fluid by the Motion of a Flat Horizontal Disk; P.A. Davies, et al. Models of Drift and Dispersion in Tidal Flows; B. Gjevik. Self-Organization Phenomena in 2D-Flows; G.J.F. van Heijst. A New Paradigm for River Plume Mixing; T.A. McClimans. Wave Attenuation due to Bottom Vegetation; M. Mork. Modelling Mesoscale Features in the Ocean; L.P. Røed. Alphabetical List of Contributors.
