Affiliations: [a] INRIA/Centre de mathématiques appliquées, École Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay, Route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, France. E-mail: lucas.chesnel@inria.fr | [b] Saint-Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7–9, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia | [c] Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering RAS, V.O., Bolshoi pr., 61, St. Petersburg, 199178, Russia. E-mail: srgnazarov@yahoo.co.uk | [d] Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 68, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland. E-mail: jari.taskinen@helsinki.fi
Abstract: We consider the propagation of surface water waves in a straight planar channel perturbed at the bottom by several thin curved tunnels and wells. We propose a method to construct non reflecting underwater topographies of this type at an arbitrary prescribed wave number. To proceed, we compute asymptotic expansions of the diffraction solutions with respect to the small parameter of the geometry taking into account the existence of boundary layer phenomena. We establish error estimates to validate the expansions using advances techniques of weighted spaces with detached asymptotics. In the process, we show the absence of trapped surface waves for perturbations small enough. This analysis furnishes asymptotic formulas for the scattering matrix and we use them to determine underwater topographies which are non-reflecting. Theoretical and numerical examples are given.
Keywords: Linear water-wave problem, asymptotic analysis, invisibility, scattering matrix, weighted spaces with detached asymptotics
