Characteristics of Bragg Reflection of Water Waves by Multiple Vertical Flexible Membranes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Wei Ding ◽  
Zao-Jian Zou ◽  
Jing-Ping Wu
Keyword(s):  
Water Waves ◽  
Bragg Reflection ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Reflection And Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Effective Bandwidth ◽  
Linear Wave ◽  
Reflection And Transmission ◽  
Flexible Membrane ◽  
Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Flexible Membranes

Bragg reflection of water waves by multiple vertical flexible membranes in water of uniform depth is investigated based on the assumption of linear wave theory and small membrane deflection. The multiple vertical flexible membranes consist of several floating vertical flexible membranes which are installed with both ends fixed. First, a single vertical flexible membrane in water waves is considered, and the reflection and transmission coefficients are obtained based on the eigenfunction expansion method and the least square method. Then the interaction of water waves with the multiple vertical flexible membranes is studied. Using the reflection and transmission coefficients obtained for the single flexible membrane, the reflection and transmission coefficients of the multiple vertical flexible membranes are obtained based on the wide spacing approximation. The proposed method is proved to be efficient by comparing the calculated coefficients with the results published in literature. The characteristics of Bragg reflection, such as the occurring condition, the primary amplitude and the effective bandwidth, are systematically investigated under various factors including the number, the tension, the draft and the spacing of membranes. The results of the present study have certain reference value for design of multiple vertical flexible membranes as effective floating breakwaters.

On the scattering of water waves by a submerged slender barrier

1998 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-189
Author(s):  
P. K. Kundu ◽  
N. K. Saha
Keyword(s):  
Finite Length ◽  
Water Waves ◽  
Vertical Plate ◽  
Perturbation Technique ◽  
Reflection And Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Reflection And Transmission ◽  
First Order ◽  
Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Analytical Expressions

AbstractAn approximate analysis, based on the standard perturbation technique, is described in this paper to find the corrections, up to first order to the reflection and transmission coefficients for the scattering of water waves by a submerged slender barrier, of finite length, in deep water. Analytical expressions for these corrections for a submerged nearly vertical plate as well as for a submerged vertically symmetric slender barrier of finite length are also deduced, as special cases, and identified with the known results. It is verified, analytically, that there is no first order correction to the transmitted wave at any frequency for a submerged nearly vertical plate. Computations for the reflection and transmission coefficients up to O(ε), where ε is a small dimensionless quantity, are also performed and presented in the form of both graphs and tables.

scholarly journals WATER-WAVES SCATTERING BY PERMEABLE BOTTOM IN TWO-LAYER FLUID IN THE PRESENCE OF SURFACE TENSION

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 827-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Srikumar Panda ◽  
Subash C. Martha
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Waves ◽  
Reflection And Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Wave Number ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Fluid System ◽  
Reflection And Transmission ◽  
Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Linearized Theory ◽  
Incident Waves

In the present paper, reflection and transmission phenomena of water waves due to undulating permeable bottom in a two-layer fluid system are investigated using two-dimensional linearized theory. The effect of surface tension on the free surface is included in this work. In two-layer fluid system, there exist waves with two different wave numbers (modes). When a wave of a particular wave number encounters the undulating bottom, reflection and transmission phenomena occur in both the layers. The reflection and transmission coefficients in both layers due to incident waves of both modes are analyzed with the aid of perturbation analysis along with Fourier transform technique. It is found that these coefficients are obtained in terms of integrals which depend on the shape function of the undulating bottom. Two different kinds of undulating bottoms are considered to determine these coefficients. For a particular undulating bottom, namely sinusoidal bottom undulation the effect of various physical parameters such as number of ripples, surface tension and porous effect parameters are demonstrated graphically. The study further elaborates the energy balance relations associated with the reflection and transmission coefficients to ascertain the correctness of all the computed results.

16.—Waves over Obstacles on a Shallow Seabed

1973 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Jeffrey ◽  
Saw Tin
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Water Waves ◽  
Recurrence Relations ◽  
Reflection And Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Shallow Water Waves ◽  
Reflection And Transmission ◽  
Transmission Coefficients

SynopsisIn this paper we consider the effect of the passage of shallow water waves over vertical walled objects on a flat seabed. The effect of reflections at the successive walls is taken into account when determining the place of breaking of the wave. The results are obtained by the introduction of special reflection and transmission coefficients at each wall and recurrence relations are formulated connecting their values at successive walls. The effect of this is to reduce the calculation of the place of breaking of the wave over a stepped seabed to an equivalent one for a wave over a flat seabed, the result of which is well known.

Propagation of Gravity Waves Past Multiple Bottom-Standing Barriers

2014 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Karmakar ◽  
C. Guedes Soares
Keyword(s):  
Gravity Waves ◽  
Water Waves ◽  
Wave Interaction ◽  
Offshore Structures ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Reflection And Transmission ◽  
Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Edge Conditions ◽  
Linearized Theory ◽  
Flexible Barriers

The interaction of oblique surface gravity waves with multiple bottom-standing flexible porous breakwaters is analyzed based on the linearized theory of water waves. Using the method of eigenfunction expansion and the least square approximation, the wave propagation in the presence of single bottom-standing barriers is analyzed considering the upper edge to be: (i) free and (ii) moored, whereas the lower edge is considered to be clamped at the bottom. The wide-spacing approximation is used to analyze the wave interaction with multiple porous bottom-standing flexible barriers to understand the effect of the submerged flexible barriers as an effective breakwater. A brief comparison of both the upper edge conditions is carried out to analyze the effect of wave dissipation due to the presence of multiple barriers. The numerical results for the reflection and transmission coefficients along with the free surface vertical deflection are obtained for the case of two and three multiple bottom-standing barriers. The attenuation in the wave height due to the presence of porosity, change in barrier depth, and distance between the barriers are analyzed. The present study will be helpful in the analysis of proper functioning of porous bottom-standing barrier as an effective breakwater for the protection of offshore structures.

scholarly journals Scattering of Oblique Water Waves by an Infinite Step

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-338
Author(s):  
P. Dolai ◽  
D.P. Dolai
Keyword(s):  
Surface Water ◽  
Water Waves ◽  
Water Wave ◽  
Wave Train ◽  
Reflection And Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Physical Parameters ◽  
Reflection And Transmission ◽  
Infinite Depth ◽  
Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Galerkin Approximations

AbstractThe present paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of obliquely incident surface water wave train passing over a step bottom between the regions of finite and infinite depth. Havelock expansions of water wave potentials are used in the mathematical analysis to obtain the physical parameters reflection and transmission coefficients in terms of integrals. Appropriate multi-term Galerkin approximations involving ultra spherical Gegenbauer polynomials are utilized to obtain very accurate numerical estimates for reflection and transmission coefficients. The numerical results are illustrated in tables.

Reflection and Transmission Coefficients of Plane Waves in Magnetoelectroelastic Layered Structures

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Y. Chen ◽  
H. L. Chen ◽  
E. Pan
Keyword(s):  
Piezoelectric Materials ◽  
Plane Waves ◽  
Layered Structures ◽  
Organic Glass ◽  
Reflection And Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Material Structure ◽  
Layered System ◽  
Reflection And Transmission ◽  
Transmission Coefficients ◽  
Novel Material

Reflection and transmission coefficients of plane waves with oblique incidence to a multilayered system of piezomagnetic and/or piezoelectric materials are investigated in this paper. The general Christoffel equation is derived from the coupled constitutive and balance equations, which is further employed to solve the elastic displacements and electric and magnetic potentials. Based on these solutions, the reflection and transmission coefficients in the corresponding layered structures are subsequently obtained by virtue of the propagator matrix method. Two layered examples are selected to verify and illustrate our solutions. One is the purely elastic layered system composed of aluminum and organic glass materials. The other layered system is composed of the novel magnetoelectroelastic material and the organic glass. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the variation of the reflection and transmission coefficients with different incident angles, frequencies, and boundary conditions, which could be useful to nondestructive evaluation of this novel material structure based on wave propagations.

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