International Journal of Engineering and Technology

In the present paper the problem of propagation of Rayleigh waves due to a finite rigid barrier in a shallow ocean has been analyzed. The reflected, transmitted and scattered waves have been obtained by fourier transformation and Wiener-Hopf technique. Numerical computations for the amplitude of the scattered and the reflected waves have been made versus the wave number. It has been done by taking the barriers of different sizes. The scattered waves behave as a decaying cylindrical wave at distant points. The amplitude of the reflected and the scattered waves falls off rapidly as the wave number increases slowly.