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On the forced surface waves due to a partially immersed vertical wave-maker in water of infinite depth


Author: P. F. Rhodes-Robinson
Journal: Quart. Appl. Math. 54 (1996), 709-719
MSC: Primary 76B15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/qam/1417234
MathSciNet review: MR1417234
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Abstract: In this paper we determine the velocity potential describing the two-dimensional antisymmetric wave motion generated by a harmonically oscillating vertical plane wave-maker partially immersed in water of infinite depth. The solution of the boundary-value problem for the velocity potential is obtained from a formulation depending on the unknown horizontal velocity on the line of antisymmetry below the wave-maker, which leads to a singular integral equation of known type for a related reduction variable. The idea was developed by Ursell to solve the corresponding transmission problem and another rigid wave-maker problem, and uses classical wave-maker theory.


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