Oblique Impact of Water Waves on Thin Porous Walls
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 131, Issue 7
Abstract
There is a paradoxical phenomenon in earlier studies when the incoming water wave is parallel to a porous breakwater, the water wave permeates completely without regard to the largeness of the the porosity of the porous breakwater. For solving the problem of the water waves obliquely impacting upon the thin porous wall, a new boundary condition on the thin porous wall—which can remedy the above mentioned paradoxical phenomenon—is proposed based on the concept that the incident angle remains unchanged when the water wave permeates into the wall. According to this new boundary condition, an analytic solution of an oblique water wave impacting on a thin porous wall of any permeability is obtained. It is found that the above paradoxical phenomenon, as the water wave is parallel to a thin porous wall, disappears. And, as the incident angle approaches 90°, the reflection coefficient and the transmission coefficient reasonably converge to 1 and 0, respectively, while on the contrary, those in the earlier investigations converge to 0 and 1.
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Acknowledgement
This study is supported by the National Science Council of R.O.C, under Grant No. UNSPECIFIEDNSC90-2611-E002-015.
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Received: Sep 23, 2002
Accepted: Oct 13, 2004
Published online: Jul 1, 2005
Published in print: Jul 2005
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Note. Associate Editor: Dewey H. Hodges
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