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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.
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Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 115–121, March–April, 2005.
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Malysheva, A.A., Malysheva, I.A. Transformation of a breaking wave at a drop of a channel bottom. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 46, 244–249 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00021903
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