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  title info:
    title: Reflection and refraction of solitary waves
    sub title: a numerical investigation
  name:
    name part: Hebenstreit, Gerald T.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Reid, R. O.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Vastano, A. C.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  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: 1977
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 111 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
  abstract: Solitary waves represent an unambiguous tool for the initial study of the propagation of long, nonlinear, dispersive water waves. A numerical model, based on an appropriate set of equations for approximating these waves in two horizontal dimensions over variable bottom topography was used to study the reflection of solitary waves from vertical barriers and the refraction of solitary waves due to changing water depth. The results of the reflection tests showed that the model could be used to successfully simulate the so-called Mach reflection phenomenon observed in wave tank studies. Sufficient information was generated to indicate that the mechanism which initiates the development of the stem is related to the rate of energy and momentum transfer from the incident wave to the reflected and stem waves. The results of the refraction tests showed that solitary waves do not seem to refract in the manner predicted by refraction theory as applied to long linear waves. The amplification of the wave due to shoaling tended to exert a greater effect on the curvature of the wave crest than that exerted by refractive effects. The net change in the direction of the solitary wave which propagated over a slope was less than that predicted from Snell's Law. Since no similar types of refraction studies were found for comparison, no definite conclusions concerning solitary wave refraction could be drawn beyond the inference that further study is necessary to corroborate these results.
  note: by Gerald Thomas Hebenstreit.
  note: "Major subject: Oceanography."
  note: Vita.
  note: Texas A & M University
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-98).
  subject:
    topic: Ocean waves
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Storm surges
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Major oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Ocean waves
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Storm surges
    topic: Mathematical models
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-372901
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 780303
    record change date: 20220104090641.0
    record identifier: in00000349365
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng