Scattering of Surface Waves on an Ideal Fluid

Abstract

Problems relating to the generation, propagation and scattering of surface waves on a fluid have received considerable attention. The bulk of the theory deals with gravity waves in perfect fluids, and is appropriate to infinitesimal wave height. In this framework, Havelock (1917, 1928), Kotchin (1939, 1940) and Ursell (1953) discuss a number of two and three dimensional problems where the surface waves are generated by prescribed motion of floating or submerged bodies. A group of related studies on gravity wave motion in perfect fluids, due to Martin, Moyce, Penney, Price and Thornhill (1952), was inspired by atomic bomb tests, and features an attempt to improve on the infinitesimal theory for stationary and space periodic waves; there is also an account of the diffraction produced by a semi-infinite breakwater inclined at any angle to a parallel harmonic train of infinitesimal waves in water of uniform depth.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 14, 1958
Accession Number
AD0205817

Entities

People

  • Eugene Rodemich
  • Harold Levine

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analytic Functions
  • Bessel Functions
  • Complex Variables
  • Conformal Mapping
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Gravity Waves
  • Integral Equations
  • Integrals
  • Numbers
  • Square Roots
  • Surface Properties
  • Surface Waves
  • Two Dimensional
  • Waves

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Fluid Dynamics.

Technology Areas

  • Space