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Gravity wave damping of hydrostatic oscillations for a buoyant disk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

F. W. G. Warren
F. W. G. Warren
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, London
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Abstract

A disk (i.e. a body whose maximum thickness is small compared with its lateral dimensions) floats with its central plane of symmetry upright. Its hydrostatic oscillations are lightly damped by the reaction of the gravity waves generated. A damping coefficient is obtained. It is shown that superimposed upon these oscillations is a small displacement which decays with the time t like t−4 or t−5.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , 29 January 1968 , pp. 309 - 319
Copyright
© 1968 Cambridge University Press

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