Localization of gravity waves on a channel with a random bottom

DOI10.1017/S0022112088000254zbMath0643.76012MaRDI QIDQ3786097

François Dunlop, Pierre Devillard, Bernard Souillard

Publication date: 1988

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

zbMATH Keywords

potential theorygravity wavesdissipative mechanismsone-dimensional channellocalization phenomenonrough bottomnumerical estimates of the localization lengthrenormalized-transfer-matrix approachviscous dissipation length

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Stochastic analysis applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M35) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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