Print Email Facebook Twitter An inquiry into the limits of applicability of the refraction - diffraction equation Title An inquiry into the limits of applicability of the refraction - diffraction equation Author Van Nieuwenhuijze, D.O. Contributor Battjes, J.A. (mentor) Vreugdenhil, C.B. (mentor) Booy, N. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Hydraulic Engineering Programme Environmental Fluid Dynamics Date 1981-01-01 Abstract This study has been undertaken in order to find out what is to be understood by " rather gentle " slopes. That is, it is an inquiry into the limits of applicability of the refraction - diffraction equation. In this study, the refraction - diffraction equation, as well as the set of equations from which it has "been derived, are used to predict the values of the wave potential at the water surface. The computation is done numerically, using A Finite Element Package ( " AFEP " ) which has been developed at Delft University. The predictions by the two models are compared for identical cases and a correlation between the slope of the bottom and the discrepancy in the predictions is sought. Only simple linear waves are considered in this study. Subject Laplacerefractiondiffractionbottom To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:de76b6ea-7308-4d83-b75e-d50f4f5511e9 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 1981 Van Nieuwenhuijze, D.O. Files PDF vNieuwenhuijze1981.pdf 60.06 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:de76b6ea-7308-4d83-b75e-d50f4f5511e9/datastream/OBJ/view