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A Perturbation Drbem Model For Weakly Nonlinear Wave Run-Ups Around Islands, Tim Marchant Dec 2008

A Perturbation Drbem Model For Weakly Nonlinear Wave Run-Ups Around Islands, Tim Marchant

Tim Marchant

In this paper, the dual reciprocity boundary element method (DRBEM) based on the perturbation method is presented for calculating run-ups of weakly nonlinear long waves scattered by islands. Under the assumption that the incident waves are harmonic, the time-dependent nonlinear Boussinesq equations are transformed into three time-independent linear equations by using the perturbation method, where, besides nonlinearity ε, the dispersion μ2 is also included in the perturbed expansion. The first-order solution η0 is found by using the linear long-wave equations. Then η0 is used in two second-order governing equations related to the dispersion and nonlinearity, respectively. Since no any omission …