Academic Catalog

MASC534 WAVES I: LINEAR WAVES

Course Code:	9500534
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(3-0)
ECTS Credit:	8.0
Department:	Graduate School Of Marine Sciences
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Graduate
Course Coordinator:	Prof.Dr. ÝSMAÝL TEMEL OÐUZ
Offered Semester:	Fall or Spring Semesters.

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.