Abstract
A NUMERICAL STUDY OF WATER-WAVE REFRACTION AND DIFFRACTION PROBLEMS IS PERFORMED. THE ANALYSIS IS BASED ON THE LINEAR WAVE THEORY AND THE PARABOLIC APPROXIMATION, WHCIH PROVIDES THE FORWARD SCATTERED WAVE FIELD. TWO PROBLEMS ARE CONSIDEREDIN PARTICULAR: (1) THE DIFFRACTION OF MONOCHROMATIC WAVES BY A THIN BREAKWATER IN A SLOWLY VARYING DEPTH AND (2) THE WAVE FIELD NEAR CAUSTICS PREDICTED BY LINEAR WAVE RAY THEORY. NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS OF THESE PROBLEMS ARE COMPARED TO EITHERANALYTICAL RESULTS OR LABORATORY EXPERIMENTAL DATA.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 7932-7940 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics |
| Volume | V 87 |
| Issue number | N C10 |
| Publication status | Published - 1982 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Geophysics
- Forestry
- Oceanography
- Aquatic Science
- Ecology
- Water Science and Technology
- Soil Science
- Geochemistry and Petrology
- Earth-Surface Processes
- Atmospheric Science
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Space and Planetary Science
- Palaeontology