Abstract
Postnova and Craster (Wave Motion, 45, 2008, pp. 565–579) describe a method for determining the frequency of trapped modes in slowly-varying elastic plates, and ocean and quantum waveguides. The purpose of the present note is to show that the accuracy of the frequency estimates for ocean waveguides can be significantly increased by taking into account the fact that, as posed, the ocean waveguide problem is not self-adjoint. For an example where the asymptotic problem has an exact solution, comparison with a numerical solution of the full problem shows that the correction to the asymptotically determined frequency is of order the fourth power of the ratio of the shelf width to the scale for longshore variations in the shelf. An explicit simple formula is also given for the trapped mode frequency of an arbitrarily, but extremely weakly and positively, curving coast.
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