The study of surface waves in a layered media has their viable application in geophysical prospecting. This paper presents an analytical study on the dispersion of torsional surface wave in a pre-stressed heterogeneous layer sandwiched between a pre-stressed anisotropic porous semi-infinite medium and gravitating anisotropic porous half-space. The non-homogeneity within the intermediate layer a...

The reflection of an object can be distorted by undulations of the reflector, be it a funhouse mirror or a fluid surface. Painters and photographers have long exploited this effect, for example, in imaging scenery distorted by ripples on a lake. Here, we use this phenomenon to visualize micrometric surface waves generated as a millimetric droplet bounces on the surface of a vibrating fluid bath...

The article touches a physically interesting phenomena of half-frequency edge waves. Results look interesting and useful in the context of shore wave dynamics. A few points need to be expanded though. 1) It is worth presenting the raw data explicitly displaying the period doubling effect. ADV versus wave gauges? Difference between wave gauge reading? 2) The flume is narrow hence parameters of t...

Title of dissertation: Physics of Breaking Bow Waves: A Parametric Investigation using a 2D+T Wave Maker Eric Maxeiner, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor James H. Duncan Department of Mechanical Engineering A mechanical 2-dimensional wave maker with a flexible surface was used to create waves similar to those formed at the bow of a moving ship. Utilizing the 2D+T ap...

local site conditions have a strong effect on ground response during earthquakes. two important soil parameters that control the amplification effects of seismic motions by a soil column are the soil hysteretic damping ratio and shear wave velocity. this paper presents the results of in situ damping ratio measurements performed using continuous surface wave attenuation data at a site in semnan ...

Simulation of free surface flow and sudden wave profile are recognized as the most challenging problem in computational hydraulics. Several Eulerian/Lagrangian approaches and models can be implemented for simulating such phenomena in which the smoothed particle hydrodynamics method (SPH) is categorized as a proper candidate. The incompressible SPH (ISPH) method hires a precise incompressible hy...

This work presents a derivation of the energy density and energy flux of surface waves modeled by the so-called Kaup system, a variant of the Boussinesq system. The derivation is based on reconstruction of the velocity field and the pressure in the fluid column below the free surface, and is an extension of a method recently proposed in [2]. In the present note, it is shown that the total energ...

Photoacoustic nanometrology using coherent extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light detection is a unique and powerful tool for probing ultrathin films with a wide range of mechanical properties and thicknesses well under 100 nm. In this technique, short wavelength acoustic waves are generated through laser excitation of a nano-patterned metallic grating, and then probed by diffracting coherent EUV beam...

The existing theory for wave propagation through a soil layer are not compatible with the real soil layers because in the theory the layers are flat and the sub-layers are parallel, while in real the soil layers are not flat and they may not be parallel. Thus, wave propagations through a corrugated interface are so important. In this paper, a two-dimensional SH-wave propagation through a corrug...