Iglesias Rodríguez, GregorioAcinas García, Juan R.Colominas, Ignasi2005-12-052005-12-051998Computational mechanics: new trends and applications (CD-ROM)84-89925-15-1http://hdl.handle.net/2183/3514th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, 1998, Buenos Aires[Resument] A model for the propagation of water waves is presented, which retrieves the concepts of rays and fronts from the geometrical optics approximation. Their definition here is nevertheless different in that it considers both refraction and diffraction, solving thus most of the problems usually associated with ray methodsapplication/pdftext/plainengWave propagationRefractionDiffractionRay methodsconference outputopen access