Open AccessCHANGES IN HEIGHT OP SHORT WAVES ON LONG WAVES
Author(s) -
Michio Sato,
Kazuo Nakamura
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
proceedings of conference on coastal engineering/proceedings of ... conference on coastal engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2156-1028
pISSN - 0589-087X
DOI - 10.9753/icce.v16.22
Subject(s) - wave flume , flume , gravity wave , physics , gravitational wave , kondratiev wave , mechanical wave , mechanics , love wave , longitudinal wave , acoustics , meteorology , geology , wave propagation , optics , breaking wave , astrophysics , breakup
In this paper we describe an experimental study on changes in height of short gravity waves on long waves. Experiments were conducted by making mechanically generated long waves superpose on mechanically generated short waves in a wave flume of 30m long and lm wide. Exact solution by Longuet-Higgins and Stewart explained our experimental results, but approximate expression a'= a,(l+P) which is widely accepted seemed to be inadequate to explain our results.