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Nonlinear-wave effects on fixed and floating bodies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

Michael De St Q. Isaacson
Michael De St Q. Isaacson
Affiliation:
Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Abstract

A numerical method for calculating the interaction of steep (nonlinear) ocean waves with large fixed or floating structures of arbitrary shape is described. The interaction is treated as a transient problem with known initial conditions corresponding to still water in the vicinity of the structure and a prescribed incident waveform approaching it. The development of the flow, together with the associated fluid forces and structural motions, are obtained by a time-stepping procedure in which the flow at each time step is calculated by an integral-equation method based on Green's theorem. A few results are presented for two reference situations and these serve to illustrate the effects of nonlinearities in the incident waves.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 120 , July 1982 , pp. 267 - 281
Copyright
© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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