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　Santu Das and Swaroop Nandan Bora.Damping of Oblique Ocean Waves by aVertical Porous Structure Placed on a Multi-step Bottom[J].Journal of Marine Science and Application,2014,(4):362-376.[doi:10.1007/s11804-014-1281-7]
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Damping of Oblique Ocean Waves by aVertical Porous Structure Placed on a Multi-step Bottom

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Title:
Damping of Oblique Ocean Waves by aVertical Porous Structure Placed on a Multi-step Bottom
Author(s):
Santu Das and Swaroop Nandan Bora
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Author(s):
Santu Das and Swaroop Nandan Bora
Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati-781039, India
Keywords:
porous structure;  oblique wave;  reflection;  matching condition;  multi-step bottom;  friction factor;  energy loss
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DOI:
10.1007/s11804-014-1281-7
Abstract:
Oblique ocean wave damping by a vertical porous structure placed on a multi-step bottom topography is studied with the help of linear water wave theory. Some portion of the oblique wave, incident on the porous structure, gets reflected by the multi-step bottom and the porous structure, and the rest propagates into the water medium following the porous structure. Two cases are considered: first a solid vertical wall placed at a finite distance from the porous structure in the water medium following the porous structure and then a special case of an unbounded water medium following the porous structure. In both cases, boundary value problems are set up in three different media, the first medium being water, the second medium being the porous structure consisting of p vertical regions-one above each step and the third medium being water again. By using the matching conditions along the virtualvertical boundaries, a system of linear equations is deduced. The behavior of the reflection coefficient and the dimensionless amplitude of the transmitted progressive wave due to different relevant parameters are studied. Energy loss due to the propagation of oblique water wave through the porous structure is also carried out. The effects of various parameters, such as number of evanescent modes, porosity, friction factor, structure width, number of steps and angle of incidence, on the reflection coefficient and the dimensionless amplitude of the transmitted wave are studied graphically for both cases. Number of evanescent modes merely affects the scattering phenomenon. But higher values of porosity show relatively lower reflection than that for lower porosity. Oscillation in the reflection coefficient is observed for lower values of friction factor but it disappears with an increase in the value of friction factor. Amplitude of the transmitted progressive wave is independent of the porosity of the structure. But lower value of friction factor causes higher transmission. The investigation is then carried out for the second case, i.e., when the wall is absent. The significant difference between the two cases considered here is that the reflection due to a thin porous structure is very high when the solid wall exists as compared to the case when no wall is present. Energy loss due to different porosity, friction factor, structure width and angle of incidence is also examined. Validity of our model is ascertained by matching it with an available one.

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