In physics, a surface wave is a mechanical wave that propagates along the interface between differing media. A common example is gravity waves along the surface of liquids, such as ocean waves. Gravity waves can also occur within liquids, at the interface between two fluids with different densities. Elastic surface waves can travel along the surface of solids, such as Rayleigh or Love waves. Electromagnetic waves can also propagate as "surface waves" in that they can be guided along with a refractive index gradient or along an interface between two media having different dielectric constants. In radio transmission, a ground wave is a guided wave that propagates close to the surface of the Earth.[1]
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a surfacewave is a mechanical wave that propagates along the interface between differing media. A common example is gravity waves along the surface of...
In fluid dynamics, a wind wave, or wind-generated water wave, is a surfacewave that occurs on the free surface of bodies of water as a result of the...
A surface acoustic wave (SAW) is an acoustic wave traveling along the surface of a material exhibiting elasticity, with an amplitude that typically decays...
called a wave orbit. Gravity waves on an air–sea interface of the ocean are called surface gravity waves (a type of surfacewave), while gravity waves that...
body waves—the primary (P waves) and secondary waves (S waves)—and surfacewaves, such as Rayleigh waves, Love waves, and Stoneley waves. A shock wave is...
state. Seismic surfacewaves travel along the Earth's surface. They can be classified as a form of mechanical surfacewave. Surfacewaves diminish in amplitude...
longitudinal waves, and surfacewaves. Some of the most common examples of mechanical waves are water waves, sound waves, and seismic waves. Like all waves, mechanical...
wavesurface, found by Augustin-Jean Fresnel in 1822, is a quartic surface describing the propagation of light in an optically biaxial crystal. Wave surfaces...
machine that exploits wave power is a wave energy converter (WEC). Waves are generated primarily by wind passing over the sea's surface and also by tidal...
Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are unusually large and unpredictable...
Surfacewave detection by animals is the process by which animals, such as surface-feeding fish are able to sense and localize prey and other objects on...
established around the shock wave, with the control surfaces that bound this volume parallel to the shock wave (with one surface on the pre-shock side of...
P-waves(compressional waves) and S-waves(transverse waves). Surfacewaves are classified into two basic types, Rayleigh waves and Love waves. Rayleigh waves travel in...
Surface acoustic wave sensors are a class of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) which rely on the modulation of surface acoustic waves to sense a physical...
Rayleigh waves are a type of surface acoustic wave that travel along the surface of solids. They can be produced in materials in many ways, such as by...
very close to the interface; for that reason, it is referred to as a surfacewave. However, despite energy flowing horizontally, along the vertical there...
Dyakonov surfacewaves (DSWs) are surface electromagnetic waves that travel along the interface in between an isotropic and an uniaxial-birefringent medium...
transverse elastic waves because of their low shear strength, so S-waves only travel in solids. Surfacewaves are the result of P- and S-waves interacting with...
In fluid dynamics, a Stokes wave is a nonlinear and periodic surfacewave on an inviscid fluid layer of constant mean depth. This type of modelling has...
Ground waves are radio waves propagating parallel to and adjacent to the surface of the Earth, following the curvature of the Earth beyond the visible...
purposes. For the specific case of predicting wind wave statistics on the ocean, the term ocean surfacewave model is used. Other applications, in particular...
capillary wave is a wave traveling along the phase boundary of a fluid, whose dynamics and phase velocity are dominated by the effects of surface tension...
detect various important biomarkers. The surface plasmon polariton is a non-radiative electromagnetic surfacewave that propagates in a direction parallel...
A Crest point on a wave is the maximum value of upward displacement within a cycle. A crest is a point on a surfacewave where the displacement of the...
Airy wave theory (often referred to as linear wave theory) gives a linearised description of the propagation of gravity waves on the surface of a homogeneous...
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