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A recent theory of Bragg scattering of surface waves by sinusoidal sandbars on a seabed is applied to three cases not examined heretofore: (1) oblique incidence on a strip of infinitely long bars, (2) oblique incidence on the corner of a bar field and (3) seabed with a mean slope. While the Bragg mechanism has been studied previously for sandbars present on many shorelines, it can be a basis for breakwaters where the soil is not strong enough to support a single massive breakwater.
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Mei et al. (1988) studied this question.
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