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Wave-power absorption by systems of oscillating surface pressure distributions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

D. V. Evans
D. V. Evans
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Bristol
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Abstract

Some general results are derived for the efficiency of energy absorption of a system of uniform oscillatory surface pressure distributions. The results, which are based on classical linear water-wave theory, show the close analogies which exist with theories for systems of absorbing oscillatory rigid bodies and a number of new reciprocal relations for pressure distributions are suggested and proved. Some simple examples illustrating the general results are given and compared with the corresponding results for rigid bodies.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 114 , January 1982 , pp. 481 - 499
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© 1972 Cambridge University Press

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