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Nonlinear wave reflection from a submerged circular cylinder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Enok Palm
Affiliation:
Mechanics Division, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway

Abstract

The paper discusses analytically the nonlinear wave reflection caused by a circular cylinder, submerged under a free surface in water of infinite depth. For monochromatic incident waves it is shown that there is no reflection of order m and frequency (m integer). This means that the dominant part of the mode of frequency is not reflected. For bichromatic incident waves it is found that the second-order wave with ‘sum frequency’ has no reflection. It is shown that the x- and y-components of the oscillatory force of order m and frequency have identical amplitudes and a phase-difference ½π. A corresponding result is also true for bichromatic waves.

Type
Research Article
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© 1991 Cambridge University Press

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