Modeling of electromagnetic scattering by coastal breaking waves

The purpose of this thesis work is to study the interaction of electromagnetic waves in L band with breaking coastal sea waves, in particular for an observer situated close to the surface. The work attempts to realize a precise electromagnetic modeling in narrow link with hydrodynamic model. To model and calculate electromagnetic fields scattered by breaking sea waves, we use a numerical approach by boundary integral technique, in particular Method of Moments (MoM). In this frame, we focus on the reliability and the convergence problem of numerical computation for strong curvature geometries as the surfaces of breaking sea waves are. After a thorough analysis of the problem, we show that a solution based on Higher-Order Method of Moments (HO-MoM) combined with Non Uniform Rational Basis Splines (NURBS) meshing technique allows the improvement of the performances of Classical-MoM. In parallel of the work on electromagnetic modeling, we attempt to introduce a hydrodynamic model able to precisely simulate the movement and the deformation of waves near the coast. We choose a hydrodynamic modeling based on Desingularized Method. This methodological approach allows the study of the evolution of waves according to the bottom slope, the relative height and the wave steepness. The combination of the results obtained from the numerical electromagnetic modeling and from the hydrodynamic description allows us to estimate the evolution of the electromagnetic fields scattered by breaking coastal sea waves according to time for three types of standard breaking : spilling, plunging and surging.

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Author Khairi, Refzul
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Created May 10, 2026, 12:49 (UTC)
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contributor Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance (Lab-STICC) ; Université européenne de Bretagne - European University of Brittany (UEB)-École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB) ; Université de Brest (UBO EPE)-Institut National Polytechnique de Bretagne (Bretagne INP)-Université de Brest (UBO EPE)-Institut National Polytechnique de Bretagne (Bretagne INP)-Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Télécom Bretagne-Institut Brestois du Numérique et des Mathématiques (IBNM) ; Université de Brest (UBO EPE)-École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne (ENSTA Bretagne)-Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] (IMT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Khairi, Refzul
date 2013-03-11T00:00:00
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