[1] Oceanic infragravity waves are investigated as a possible source of seismic free oscillations, often referred to as the ‘‘hum’’ of the Earth, using a numerical model of depth-independent, nondispersive, long-wave dynamics with a forcing from nonlinear interactions among the primary wind waves (including swell). Because of near-resonant amplification, the structure of the primary-wave forcin...

Waves on the ocean are generated well away from any shoreline and travel under a prevailing wind towards a distant shore. These deep-water waves eventually become shallow-water waves and break near the shore creating a turbulent surf front of bubbles, foam and spray, encompassing secondary breaking and smaller splashing waves. Human surfers can propel themselves shorewards on these breakers or ...

Short water surface waves generated by wind in a water tunnel have been measured by an optical technique that provides a synoptic picture of the water surface gradient over an area of water surface (Zhang & Cox 1994). These images of the surface gradient can be integrated to recover the shape of the water surface and find the two-dimensional wavenumber spectrum. Waveforms and two-dimensional st...

dynamic response of underground structures has always been a topic of concern for designers and researchers. the behavior of these complicated systems under blast loading is affected by various factors and parametric studies are required to investigate their significance. the importance of soil density around the underground structure through which, the waves of explosion of a penetrator bomb i...

This paper deals with the development of a model for concrete subjected to dynamic loads. Shock waves are generated by Pulsed Arc Electro-hydraulic Discharges (PAED) in water and applied to mortar samples. A diphasic model (liquid water and vapour) is implemented in order to describe the electrical discharge and the propagation of shock waves in water. An anisotropic damage model is devised, wh...

We present experimental observations of the hierarchy of rational breather solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) generated in a water wave tank. First, five breathers of the infinite hierarchy have been successfully generated, thus confirming the theoretical predictions of their existence. Breathers of orders higher than five appeared to be unstable relative to the wave-breaking...