Diffraction of gravity waves by a barrier reef

DOI10.1017/S0022112081000967MaRDI QIDQ3928473zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors John Miles

Publication date 1981

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112081000967

zbMATH Keywords

barrier reefdiffraction of long water wavesmatched perturbation expansionsresonant amplification of incoming swellscattering matrixshallow lagoonsimple depth discontinuityvariational approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15)

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• Surface-wave scattering matrix for a shelf

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