Scholte wave

A Scholte wave is a surface wave (interface wave) propagating at an interface between a fluid and an elastic solid medium (such as an interface between water and sand).{{cite journal

| last1 = Zhu | first1 = Jinying | last2 = Popovics | first2 = John S. | last3 = Schubert | first3 = Frank | title = Leaky Rayleigh and Scholte waves at the fluid–solid interface subjected to transient point loading | journal = J. Acoust. Soc. Am.| volume = 116 | issue = 2101 | pages = 2101 | year = 2004 | doi = 10.1121/1.1791718| bibcode = 2004ASAJ..116.2101Z }}http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jam/2012/313207.pdf Rayleigh's, Stoneley's, and Scholte's Interface Waves in Elastic Models Using a Boundary Element Method, Esteban Flores-Mendez, Manuel Carbajal-Romero, Norberto Flores-Guzmán, Ricardo Sánchez-Martínez, Alejandro Rodríguez-Castellanos The wave is of maximum intensity at the interface and decreases exponentially away from the interface into both the fluid and the solid medium.{{cite book |last=Nayfeh |first=Adnan H. |year=1995 |title=Wave Propagation in Layered Anisotropic Media with Applications to Composites|url=https://archive.org/details/wavepropagationl00nayf_472 |url-access=limited |page=[https://archive.org/details/wavepropagationl00nayf_472/page/n113 99]}} It is named after J. G. Scholte, who discovered it in 1947.{{cite journal | last = Scholte | first = J.G. | title = The range and existence of Rayleigh and Stoneley waves | journal = Geophysical Journal International | volume = 5 | pages = 120–126 | year = 1947 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1947.tb00347.x| bibcode = 1947GeoJ....5..120S | doi-access = free }} This wave is similar to a Stoneley wave, which propagates at a solid-solid interface, and a Rayleigh wave, which propagates at a vacuum-solid interface.