Artigo Revisado por pares

Localization of gravity waves on a channel with a random bottom

1988; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 186; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0022112088000254

ISSN

1469-7645

Autores

P. Devillard, François Dunlop, Bernard Souillard,

Tópico(s)

Seismic Waves and Analysis

Resumo

We present a theoretical study of the localization phenomenon of gravity waves by a rough bottom in a one-dimensional channel. After recalling localization theory and applying it to the shallow-water case, we give the first study of the localization problem in the framework of the full potential theory; in particular we develop a renormalized-transfer-matrix approach to this problem. Our results also yield numerical estimates of the localization length, which we compare with the viscous dissipation length. This allows the prediction of which cases localization should be observable in and in which cases it could be hidden by dissipative mechanisms.

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