Transformation of a breaking wave at a drop of a channel bottom

This paper gives results of an experimental study of incident and reflected waves of the bore type in the neighborhood of a sharp change in the channel bed level. It is shown that under conditions typical of accidents at ship locks, the wave height can reach 8 m.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 115–121, March–April, 2005.