Reflection and transmission of surface water waves by undulating bottom topography

Abstract

The objective of this thesis is to investigate the scattering of a train of small amplitude harmonic surface water waves by small undulation of a sea bed for both normal and oblique incidence In this study of scattering mixed boundary value problems are set up for the determi nation of a velocity potential where the governing partial differential equation happens to be Laplace s equation in two dimensions for normal incidence and in three dimensions for oblique incidence within the fluid with