Nonlinear refraction–diffraction of waves in shallow water

DOI10.1017/S0022112085001203zbMath0593.76028MaRDI QIDQ3723939

Philip L.-F. Liu, Sung B. Yoon, James T. Kirby

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Boussinesq equations; parabolic approximation; combined refraction/diffraction; evolution equations for spectral-wave components; slowly varying two-dimensional domain; weakly nonlinear shallow-water waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B15: Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction

35Q99: Partial differential equations of mathematical physics and other areas of application

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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• On the parabolic equation method for water-wave propagation
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• Refraction–diffraction model for linear surface water waves
• Some numerical solutions of a variable-coefficient Korteweg-de Vries equation (with applications to solitary wave development on a shelf)