MASC534 WAVES I: LINEAR WAVES
| Course Code: | 9500534 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Graduate School of Marine Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. İSMAİL TEMEL OĞUZ |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Course Content
Irrotational motions with free boundaries, perturbations, linear and nonlinear theories, periodic and random waves, momentum and energy fluxes. Wave progression, dispersion, modulation, reflection, refraction, scattering, diffraction, radiation and the notions of phase and group velocities. The Cauchy-Poission problem, wave makers, wind waves, capillary and long waves, basin and edge waves, waves on beaches.