International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 12 (1989), Issue 4, Pages 741-748
Transmission of obliquely incident surface waves through a narrow gap
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, 92 A.P.C. Road, Calcutta 700009, India
Received 22 January 1987
Copyright © 1989 B. N. Mandal and P. K. Kundu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This note is concerned with the transmission of a train of surface water waves obliquely incident on a thin plane vertical barrier with a narrow gap. Within the framework of the linearized theory of water waves, the problem is reduced to the solution of an integral equation which is solved approximately. The transmission and reflection co–efficients are also obtained approximately and represented graphically against the different angles of incidence for fixed wave numbers.