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  title info:
    non sort: An
    title: investigation of dispersive and nondispersive long wave equations applied to oceans of variable depth
  name:
    name part: Mass, William John.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Huebner, George L.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Ichiye, Takashi
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Reid, Robert O.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Vastano, Andrew C.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 1978
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 84 leaves : graphs ; 28 cm
  abstract: Tsunami records, obtained along coastlines at points distant from their source, are greatly modified from their deep water signatures. A better understanding of tsunamis propagating in deep water is required before successful predictions of tsunami amplitudes in coastal areas can be made. The principal modification mechanisms for tsunamis propagating in one horizontal dimension are phase dispersion and reflection from bottom topography. These mechanisms are studied separately by developing models which either include or exclude phase dispersion. Variational principles along with a set of scaling parameters are employed to derive approximate quasi-long wave equations in one horizontal dimension. This technique allows the introduction of a bottom topography function which may vary in both space and time. Differential equations which result are capable of governing wave solutions which are initiated by bottom motion as well as modified by both variation in depth and phase dispersion. The method is also carried out without recourse to scaling. A system of nonlinear differential equations results, which may be applied where the wave height is a large fraction of the water depth. ...
  note: Vita.
  note: Texas A & M University
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-63).
  subject:
    topic: Ocean waves
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Tsunamis
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Major oceanography
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-324563
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 790301
    record change date: 20220103135439.0
    record identifier: in00000318264
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng