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Scale effects in a wave-refraction experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

Tudor Sprinks and
Ronald Smith
Tudor Sprinks
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Essex
Ronald Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
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Abstract

The experimental results of Provis (1975, 1976) for wave amplification at a conical island bear little resemblance to the theoretical predictions of Smith & Sprinks (1975). Here Provis's suggestion is confirmed: that his experiments were dominated by viscous damping and by standing waves between the island and the wavemaker. Estimates are given as to how large an experiment needs to be to avoid these important scale effects.

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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 129 , April 1983, pp. 455 - 471
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© 1983 Cambridge University Press

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