On the parabolic equation method for water-wave propagation

DOI10.1017/S0022112079001397zbMath0415.76012MaRDI QIDQ3051614

A. C. Radder

Publication date: 1979

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

zbMATH Keywords

surface wavesreduced wave equationparabolic equation methodbottom profilecomplex two-dimensional potential functionCrank-Nicolson finite-difference equationlocal phase and group velocityshoaling watertransmitted and reflected components

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Numerical solution of discretized equations for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N22) Two-dimensional potential theory (31A99)

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Cites Work

• Bremmer series that correct parabolic approximations
• Parabolic approximations for underwater sound propagation
• Diffraction and refraction of surface waves using finite and infinite elements
• On the Parabolic Approximation to the Reduced Wave Equation
• On the Connection Formulas and the Solutions of the Wave Equation

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