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Note on the long-wave limit of the virtual-mass coefficient for a half-immersed circular cylinder heaving on water of finite depth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2006

P. F. Rhodes-Robinson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract

This note provides numerical values for the long-wave limit of the virtual-mass coefficient relating to the heaving motion of a half-immersed circular cylinder on water of finite depth, found analytically by Ursell in the preceding paper; some preliminary analysis is needed, however.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1976 Cambridge University Press

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References

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