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Acoustic shock and acceleration waves in inhomogeneous fluids are investigated using both analytical and numerical methods. In the context of start-up signaling problems, and based on linear acoustics theory, we study the propagation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-13 R. S. Keiffer , P. M. Jordan , I. C. Christov

We study the scattering of gravity waves in longitudinal inhomogeneous stationary flows. When the flow becomes supercritical, counterflow propagating shallow waves are blocked and converted into deep waves. We show that the reflected waves…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-01 Antonin Coutant , Renaud Parentani

Consider an exterior problem of the three-dimensional elastic wave equation, which models the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle. The scattering problem is reformulated into a boundary value problem by introducing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

We study a new mechanism of wave/electron scattering in multi-mode surface-corrugated waveguides/wires. This mechanism is due to specific square-gradient terms in an effective Hamiltonian describing the surface scattering, that were…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 F. M. Izrailev , N. M. Makarov , M. Rendon

We consider the scattering of linear waves in two dimensions by a rectangular region at the junction of four waveguides. A solution to the frequency domain problem is obtained by exploiting reflective symmetry to reduce the full problem to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Afnan A. Aldosri , Michael H. Meylan , Ben Wilks

We study the effect of discrete symmetry breaking in inhomogeneous scattering media within the framework of generic wave propagation. Our focus is on one-dimensional scattering potentials exhibiting local symmetries. We find a class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 P. A. Kalozoumis , C. Morfonios , F. K. Diakonos , P. Schmelcher

We develop a theoretical model to investigate wave propagation in media with random time-varying properties, where temporal fluctuations lead to complex scattering dynamics. Focusing on the ensemble-averaged field, we derive an exact…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Romain Pierrat , Julia Rocha , Rémi Carminati

Long waves in shallow water propagating over a background shear flow towards a sloping beach are being investigated. The classical shallow-water equations are extended to incorporate both a background shear flow and a linear beach profile,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Maria Bjørnestad , Henrik Kalisch

The topographical scattering of gravity waves is investigated using a spectral energy balance equation that accounts for first order wave-bottom Bragg scattering. This model represents the bottom topography and surface waves with spectra,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rudy Magne , Fabrice Ardhuin , Vincent Rey , Thomas H. C. Herbers

The reflection and transmission amplitudes of waves in disordered multimode waveguides are studied by means of numerical simulations based on the invariant embedding equations. In particular, we analyze the influence of surface-type…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Sanchez-Gil , V. Freilikher , A. A. Maradudin , I. Yurkevich

During direct numerical simulation of the isotropic turbulence of surface gravity waves in the framework of Hamiltonian equations formation of the long wave background or condensate was observed. Exponents of the direct cascade spectra at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 A. O. Korotkevich

We report on the scattering of a plane wave from a vertically oscillating plate in the low frequency approximation by means of Floquet theory. In the case of a static plate, the scattering coefficients are evaluated via mode matching method…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Magdalini Koukouraki , Philippe Petitjeans , Agnès Maurel , Vincent Pagneux

In all of the diverse areas of science where waves play an important role, one of the most fundamental solutions of the corresponding wave equation is a stationary wave with constant intensity. The most familiar example is that of a plane…

The currents in the ocean have a serious impact on ocean dynamics, since they affect the transport of mass and thus the distribution of salinity, nutrients and pollutants. In many physically important situations the current depends…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-22 Conor Curtin , Rossen Ivanov

In this paper we construct periodic capillarity-gravity water waves with a piecewise constant vorticity distribution. They describe water waves traveling on superposed linearly sheared currents that have different vorticities. This is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Calin Iulian Martin , Bogdan--Vasile Matioc

Real world water waves often propagate on current. And, the measurement of waves and current is an important task for coastal and marine engineers. Modern marine measurement technologies (i.e. unmanned autonomous vehicles, drones) often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-31 David M. Kouskoulas , Yaron Toledo

We consider the wave equation for sound in a moving fluid with a fourth-order anomalous dispersion relation. The velocity of the fluid is a linear function of position, giving two points in the flow where the fluid velocity matches the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-29 T. G. Philbin

Ocean turbulence at meso- and submesocales affects the propagation of surface waves through refraction and scattering, inducing spatial modulations in significant wave height (SWH). We develop a theoretical framework that relates these…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-05 Han Wang , Ana B. Villas Bôas , Jacques Vanneste , William R. Young

We discuss here the direct and inverse problems for wave propagation in a waveguide with rough internal surface and arbitrary mean shape. The high degree of multiple scattering inside the waveguide poses significant challenges both for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Mark Spivack , Orsola Rath Spivack

The investigation into the scattering of plane waves by a periodic array of parallel cylinders utilizes the method of cylindrical wave decomposition, thereby reducing the problem complexity to a series of linear algebraic equations. This…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-21 A. S. Bereza , A. E. Chernyavsky , S. V. Perminov , D. A. Shapiro