Omnidirectional total reflection for liquid surface waves propagating over a bottom with one-dimensional periodic undulations

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2006 Mar;73(3 Pt 2):035302. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.035302. Epub 2006 Mar 24.

Abstract

We study theoretically the propagation of liquid surface waves over a bottom with one-dimensional (1D) periodic undulations. We find a general criterion for omnidirectional total reflection in such a system. Numerical simulations based on a transfer matrix method demonstrate unambiguously the existence of omnidirectional total reflection for liquid surface waves propagating over a bottom with 1D periodic undulations.