International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 18 (1995), Issue 1, Pages 171-177
doi:10.1155/S0161171295000214
Reflection of internal waves by sand ripples
1Khanpara High School, Khari, 24-Parganas (South), India
2Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, 92 A.P.C. Road, Calcutta 700009, India
Received 19 July 1992; Revised 13 March 1993
Copyright © 1995 Samiran Mandal and Uma Basu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
An investigation is made to study the diffraction of a train of time harmonic
progressive waves propagating along the surface of separation of two superposed fluids which are
laterally unbounded, the upper fluid being extended infinitely upwards, the lower fluid being of
finite depth with sand ripples at the bottom. The first order correction to the velocity potential
for the problem of diffraction of interface waves in the presence of bottom deformation is
obtained by integral transform technique after introduction of a linear frictional term in the
kinematic boundary condition at the surface of separation following Lamb (1932), and the
reflection and transmission coefficients are estimated for a patch of sand ripples.